418 Chap. 2 3 . An Expoftionupon the Book of J GB. Verf.13 then he was before, but man cannot turn God,and make him any ocher thenhe is. God can caufeman w change his rninde ; but man cannot makeGod change his minde,nor turn him backward. The Prophet faith of God ( ¡fa. 44. 25.) That he turneth wife men backward, and anaketh their knowledgefoolifh.The turning of the wife backward, is the altering oftheir counfelis. When they will not alter them, God can. He faith, Their councells fhall not itand,nar (hall they reach theend to which they were appointed. Sed ça d et;-? And it is fo. But can the wiléft ofmen, or all wife men plotting ftmitís "' 1t and laying their heads together, turne the molt wife God backd 7eóememper dT wa-d ? They cannot, So that thelewords hold forth theefficacy, qÑ ratianern and liability of the pu. pofes,counfells, and decrees of God.wba ab cofaltdi can turne bim ? rite repafcat, rind what b:5 futile dr f ,etb, ev^n that he doth. God is not like m ir,confiffingofa fouleand body ; Man is the refult ofConk and body united together. A foule is not a man, nor is a body a man, mán.is a third thing riling out of both ; But god is a ¡pirst. And when lab faith, what his foule defireth; The Amirnam a!i^ meaning ic, what himfelfe defireth. The foule ofa man, is indeed (dim fxmipro the man, becaufe the choyceft part of man ; though man hash eo cujut ell ani- ma rot eí noia, another parr, namely, a body,yet the foul is be. The foule of man, quareanima being his belt part, is often put for the whole man. But the foul der, e/exs e(i. ofGod is noe put here for God,becaufe it is the belt part of Him; Snit. Flu Ionic is hi nfelfe. Further, This phrafe or manner of fpeaking, what his foul de- ftreth, notes only the intenfnes and ftrength ofhis defines, or what he de4ìreth ftrongly. The Lord fometime3 makes offers to doe that which is not in his heart or deli re to doe:But what ever his foule goesout upon indeed, or would have done, that (hall be done. Thus the word is Wed frequently,co let forth the full pur- ple of God to the a thing (Levir. if. 30.) ,./'od 1 it-ill deflray your high places, and cut down your images, andcall your earlales upon the carkales of jour idols, and my f u1e lba abhorreyou. Thze is, extreamely abhorre you, I will abhorre you with the utmoft abhorrence And againe (Ifa. I. 14.) Tour new wanes, andyour appointedfeafis, my foule batech. That is, I hare theca with a per- feet hatred, to (hew how deepe his hatred was of thofe things(as done by them) he faith, my foule /meth them ; As if he had laid, Mate
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