2 God will repent him of the evil which he had threatened him withal. It is true, repentance cannot properly be in God, because it argues something rash, imprudent, inconsiderate in him that acts it, of which the Infinitely wise God is incapable: but it is ascribed to him on the account of his providence. God sometimes threatens sinners, and in those threatenings, there is a reserve, in case of their repentance: and then, when ⟨p. 264⟩the sinner repents, God is said to repent, viz. when he revokes the threatening, and doth not put it in execution, hence that Jer 18. 8. the meaning of such language is, the sinner is now out of the danger of those judgments; he shall not die, hence that advice Zeph, 2. begin. which intends not the eternal purpose of God, but the threatening of the law which was denounced against them.
2 God will repent him of the evil which he had threatned him withal. It is true, repentance cannot properly be in God, because it argues something rash, imprudent, inconsiderate in him that acts it, of which the Infinitely wise God is incapable: but it is ascribed to him on the account of his providence. God sometimes threatens sinners, and in those threatnings, there is a reserve, in case of their repentance: and then, when ⟨p. 264⟩the sinner repents, God is said to repent, viz. when he revokes the threatning, and doth not put it in execution, hence that Jer 18. 8. the meaning of such language is, the sinner is now out of the danger of those judgments; he shall not dy, hence that advice Zeph, 2. begin. which intends not the eternal purpose of God, but the threatning of the law which was denounced against them.
