•' .:.'' The lm~utttbility of G-oo. felfe unch.e~tg~Able··and immutable and con.f.l:a.nt in well-doing.Forelfe to-what end bath bee revea- . led to us that bee is unchangeAble ?· Is itnot ., for. ourufe? Sureit is, everi to teach us,. th~t- whenwe:findeour felves fubjetl: to immucabilitie,wee lhould goe-to theunc/umgeable Goel; and befeech him to cftablitb our hean:s: Whichno creature is able to doe, feeing everycreatme is mutabIe,. ·only fo far rmchangeA.-ble,as he maketh ittobe fo ;, he only is eriginallyuiJchang,eable,all friends and all other things .in ·the world' areno furtherun- . ch.u:geable than.hecommunicates it to them, (as.. w,as fayd before;) a~d the fame ~vas trueofthine.. owneheart andof thy-pu:rpofes. Therefore thou mull: thinke with thy fclfe-, and-ma-ke this ufe, ofthe unch~tngeablene!Je of God, that he ondy can. make·thee .unchangeable: and in any buline!fe, wherein thou wanteft dired:ion be fure to goeto God.;IAm. i•~.'\vhoisonelywife,andcan,fhewa· · man.w~at·todoe,when he is in a fh:a.ic-. So upon · the .fame grounq when d10u feefi:·that.thou art uacanllant, goe t6h1m that is unchAngeaUc,that can make theeconflant; anddelit:e him to fixe . thy quicke 4 filver, to hallance. ·thy Iightndfe, aad that he would fettle and fi.llthat vaine.,amf .... . 'emptyheart of thine .with -fomething that may· ftay1lnd ~llablittfl it:. .There is no other way;aH · the--meanes that can beufed,all the motives that. can .-bee, put to~ man,- all thereafons that can bee brought, are not able to make us con!l:ant, titl"G b o worke it in us, and for us. Therefore the Dne.ly. t"J~}' ~o:.giv~...G o D .the glory of bis . . immutabi!itie, I
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