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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Object. Christ who is God, assumed the Humane Nature, here was a Change.
Resp. If indeed the Divine Nature had been converted into the Humane, or the Humane into the Divine, here had been a Change; but not so. The Humane Nature was distinct from the Divine, therefore there was no Change. As suppose a Cloud cover the Sun, this makes no Change in the Body of the Sun; so though the Divine Nature be covered with the Humane, this makes no Change in the Divine Nature.
2d, There is no Period put to his Being: 1 Tim. 1.16. Who only hath immortality. The Godhead cannot die: 1. An Infinite Essence cannot be changed into a Finite, but God is Infinite. 2. He is Eternal, Ergo, he is not Mortal to be Eternal, and Mortal is a Contradiction.
Use 1. See here the Excellency of the Divine Nature in its Immutability: this is the Glory of Godhead. Mutableness denotes Weakness; it is not so in God, he is the same Yesterday and to Day, and for ever, Heb. 13.8. Men are fickle and mutable, like Reuben, Unstable as water,