Chap. 23. An Expofition up'an the Book f J OB. Vert 13. nor were they then deftroyed. The change is in the creature,noc in God, when that is changed which God fpeakes concerning the creatu e He i$ Rill unmoveable in the fame minde ; all the motion is in the minde ofman.Ic is in this cafe as with a fhip putting out to Sea. When a (hip lets our from the harhour,and fayles by the fhoe, the unexperienced paffenger thinks the (boremoves from thefhip, whereas indeed the (hip onely modes from or by the (bore. So when we think Godyhangteh, or is moved, the change . or motion is onely in our (elves. In one difpenfation we take no- ticeof the love ofGod, and in another ofhis wrath, in a third of his juftice, and in a fourth ofhis mercy. Thefe arechanges upon: us,but not in God.And chefe (hew that God changeth his courfe towards us, but they are noproofes ofachange in God. For the love of God, and the wrath ofGod, the ',dice of God, and the mercy of God are llill the fame, bat we changingare call force- rimeunder the of edsofhis Jove, and fometirnesof his wrath,we are fometim:s under the faddy fi droppings of his ¡tattle =,and fome- times under the fweetefl influences ofhis mercy. As whena mars changeth his afpe&, and turnesabout his body to another poynt, That pert of the heaven which was before at his right hand, is now at his left.; yet theheavens are as they were, they doe not change either their pofiAon, ortheir motion, but the man flatly changed his.Thus the wrath, and love, the juflice, and the mercy. ofGod Rand alwayes ac the fame point ; but man turneth force- times 7ufitice-ward, and fometimes mercy-card; now,he faces thew wrath, and anon the love of God. And doing io, he meets with many changes in the dilpenfations of God toward him,but there is no change in the minde ofGod coward hire, And Peeing God is unchangeable, or, in one mind, take this by- way of dedu&ion from it. 'Tis theduty ofman to fubmit himclfe unto and acquiefce in the mind ofGod. Seeing the minde of God refis we ought to refl inch: minde of God.; that is , we ought to religne up our felves, and to refolve our mindes into the minde, andour wills in- to, the will of God. What ever pleafeth God, fhould pleafe us. He is in one minde, and that one minde of his, bath nothing in it but juflice, and righteoufneffe toward, all, nothing but goodneffe).andmercy, nothing but loving kindnef e,, and 429 s
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