Th_eImmutability of Go D·· 101 lhall find in two places of Scripture. 2 Pet. 2 o 4· ! If the LQrd did fo with the Angels, [pAred n9t 1 .t..Pet."• 4• them, faith bee,hee is the fame God,and therefore . hce knowes how to rejerve the un;ufl to the day of judgement, and efpecially thofo that are unclettne •• the ground of it is his unchAnge~Z-blenejfe. The o– ther place is in z.Cor.ro. You know what hedid to the I[raelites faithhe, he will doe the fame to ~.cor, I o. you: therefore doe you take heed, that you doe not commit fornication, IU fome of them committed, and died in thewildernej]e,&c. · Onely here is this caution diligeatly tobe re~ membred, which we<: rnuft adde to all this that ACautionad. ' bath beerie fp6ken. It is fure, that whenfoever ~cd. it is the fame cafe, heewill doe the fame thing: though his judgments are differenr,tbe tirncdifferent, the wayes and meanes different. As for . example,hc ftroke PzzAhprefently,and fo ·he did Gods jdu~ffig~ . d b d l •1_ mcnts J c• -Gehez t, andNa a , an .AvtrJU; yet tG others rent in the there may bee a difference in the time: to rhcfe 1 time,and hee did it prefently;to others it maybe,.hee wm ·. mc:ancs, doe it many yeeres after. Againe,he firoke them · , with death', but it may be there is another kinde of judgement re(ervedfor thee; as it may bee he ·1 will not cut thee off in the a?t)but wiHgive thee up ro hardneffe of heart,or the like. · 1 Ag;tine , - fo it is in t'hewipg mercy, for the ru-le is as true therein alfo : Hee fhewes mere' t<P fame. this way, and toothers that way, and beehumbles men after divers maners ; fo fome · men bee pt;U1i!heth for their finnes in this life, fome hee referves for another World :; Againe, ' . '·' ·I._ : ~~ . I I I ' · ' Gg3 fom e _______ ,., ..
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