.. ---- "How re under– llood feverall .. s,r!ptUr.c:s, '. c,nft!'f.l~ That all hi~ love, hatred, joy,,&c~ were in him from cter,nitie. ·The Immutabzlity Dj G-,o n• -scripture.,wbercinthe rL 0 I. D-expreffeth fucba follicitude fouhe death of finners : as, why :ri!J joudie, 0 ho~f: of I fr•el ~ why.w.iU yee nor hear- · kenJandohey.? And, .A,rI1ive,foith t·he Lord) l . ,dejire not the de.tthQ[ aJimur. And, -How .am I prcft . fmder JOur..abominations,-e-::en .:u aC11-rt if puffedwith · I Ibut:es.t And it isfaid, .Gen.. 6. -6. T:hat 1he Lord rr..u grhvcd ..st .the he-ttrt, ·or it pained him at the \heart, th.zth.ee h.id made man. An tbefe kind of expreffions ~s it is..evident from.hence) are but attributed to G.o o aft:er rhemannerofmen; not .– .that he is m0vcd, f0r it ·cannot be., fceing he i~ ~ ·.unchangeable : .wharfocvcr new accidents fall out in the World, . 1 l1e is not ftirred wtth them, .. k is not moved with anynew atfeclion; for· it he were, he tbouJdbe, as a man is,dJangeable. 13ut the meaning of tbofe places is, to tbcw the . i infinite good~elfe of his nature, and the great- : neife of our bnnes : For as me~ grieve much, .when their wills are crotfed, and when their worke is brought to noth-ing j how w.earie are. . they,.when they {hi\!c long, and doe ·no good -? So the L.o R o w.otdd.exprcffe it tous thus, that wee might take notice, what the great provoca~ tions arc, what the finnes and faults arc, where- .withwee offend him from day to day, that wee may knowwhat theybe, and what price to fet -upon thofc finnes, wherebyweew~a,rie him from time.to time. . That all rhe love and hatr~d that bee bath now fince the World was made, all theeompla– ,cencie anddifplicencie, aU the happineffi! and . joL
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