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the
Nature
of
God.
anti.
There
is
no
(bad=
of
change.
Indeed
there
is a
change
in
the creature, but
nothing at all in
God
;
as
if
you bring
a
peece of
wax
to
the
Sun
it
melts
it,
and
clay,it
hardens
it,
here
is
a
different
effeQ
of the
Sun
,
but
the
Sun
is
the
fame
;
fo
bring the creature in
one
difpofition
to God, and
the
love
of God , and delight
of God
is
in
it
;
bring
the
creature
in another difpofition
to
God
, and
the
wrath
of
God
is
upon
it,
yet God
is
the
fame,
only
the
varier
is
in
the
creature.
And
therefore
his
Name
alone
is
excellent,
and the creature,
whatfoever excellence
it
bath,
it
changes
up and down
:
As
there
is
no fhadow
of
change
with
God,
fo no fhadow
of
conftancy in
the
creature.
i
o
Further in the
next
place,
All
thefe
things
are
efen-
guicquid
e0
tially
in
God ;
whatfoever
is
in God,
it
is
his
being, its
God
saVeo
eft
Dens
himfeíf
:
This
one thing would
much
help
you
to
under-
¡land the
Nature
of God
,
that
whatfoever can bee
truly
faid
of God,
it
is
God
himfeíf
;
as
thus
,
Gods wifdome is
God
himfelf
;
Gods
mercy
is
God himfeíf;
Gods
power
is
God
himfeíf
:
it
is
not
fo in
the creature
,
a
mans wifdome
is
not
a
mans
being
,
they are feparable
,
one
may
bee fe-
parated
from
the
other
;
but Gods wifdome
is
Gods being;
a
mans power and ftrength
is
not
his
beeing
,
but Gods is,
fo
a
mans mercy and goodnefs
is
not
his
beeing ,
but
Gods
is,
and
therefore
(as
before) thefe things
that
are
varioully
conceived
by
us
,
they
are
not
onely one
in
God
,
but
his
very beeing
,
and
this
doth
mightily adde
to
the
glory
of
God,
that
whatfoever
is
in God
,
it
is
the
very effence and
beeing
of
God himfeíf
:
Thefe things
that
wee fpeak
of
God
(as
I
told
you) becaufe
God
is
fo
infinitly
above
us,
it
is
very hard
to
make
them
plain
to
every underftanding;
and
no marvel , becaufe wee are fallen
fo
far
from
him
;
and
as
I
have gone along ,
I
fear
that
a
great
many
are
ready
to
think,
Lord what
are
thefe
things,wee
cannot
ap-
prehend
them
;
why
then
go
thy
wayes home
and
bee
humbled for
that
great
fall
of mankinde
,
Oh
how
far
is
man fallen
by his fin
?
wee fee now
why
God
dwells in the
thick,
cloud
and
darkrsefi
:
Oh
how
far
am
I
fallen
from
God,