.-iJIJII ne Immutabi/iiJ ofG 0 D • thou (halt be heard. To this end are thofe pla– ~ ces : The LirdJ. handisn9t fbortned, that heeca1znot fA:fJe, mr-hit eare heaV) 1 ,that it cannDtbure : This is the fcopeof the Prophet; as if G~d lbould {ay, You wonder why you are not heard , that you ·. :have not the fame fucceffe in ;prayer that the Saints have bad, why the.cafe is not the fame, faith he,they repented,but you doe not; youare rnifiaken., for you·areyet in your finnes ; I am as . £l:rong tohelpe you~and as ready, and if I doe it . not; it is b.ecaufe the cafe is ditferent: rour ji"nnes h~Jvemadea feparation betrvuneitse and you. Which · implies,that G6d will hearc if the ea fc bee the , .fame.Only remember this , that Go o may de- . ferre it fomething long before he heares you, yet ' he will doe itin the end. Ifunchangeableneffebe proper toGodonely,(for fa you mull: underfiafld it, proper to him, and common to no other) then learne tokn0w the ditferencebetwe~nehimand the.creatures. Ther.ebedivers branches ofthis ufc: As, 103 I God heares– iprayer now as informer time I if our cafe be tbcfaa~e. E.fAJ 19•1• Yfo'f. To (ce thcdif. fercttce be· tweeneGoa andthecrca• lUres, Comaincs t\YO br ancllcs · I . F.ir!l, if this .be. fo, thenevery~creature is, ;tnd ; muft be changablejand·if fo,then take heed~that Lookc oR tb~: · you doe not expeCt more of the creature, .than is in ir,for thi-swill raife youraffettipns t-othe crea~ cure, and focaufe griefc and vexation in the end: and-in:Jeed the fmgetfu Ineffe ofrhi·s·changeabJe– nerfe m the.creatme, unchangeablendfe in Bod creatures as mutable and expelt Roe muchfrem them. is the caufe of all our croffes and farrow in out~ Forgetting .. · the creatures · wardthingswecm<retwirb. And tb.:rebe thefe tobemurablc:. degrees to it. - . z For 3 firft, The for: 0 cretfulneffc of the murabi- Makes us ox– pc:tlmuch Gg 4 - ~ty_!.romthem.
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