' ' A Fe,tft for W:ornu. ~ Meditat. 8. B. l1 t ltay ! Is God like one of us ? Can he When he hath faid it, ·alter Iiis Dec:re~ ? Can he that is -the ~od of; truth .difpence . ·, Witnwhat he vow d ?or offer v1olenc-e . Upon his facred Juftice? Can his mind Revolt at all ?-or vary like thewind ? How cotpes this alteration then, that He Thus Irmitt'ing th' effeCl: of his Decree , (1 pon th' expiring date of forty days, ~. I ' . He then performs it not /tBut ftill delays His plagues denounc'd, and Judgm.ent.ftill forbears, And ftead offorty days gives many years ? . Yet forty'days; and?(iniveh fhall perifh ; . Yet forty years, and 't{iniveh cloth flourifh : A change i~ tnan'sinfirm, in God 'tis ftrange; . J • In 9od to cl1ange his Will, and.will a Change, Are diver-s things : _When he repents from ill, He wills a Change; he changes not hiswill; . J. Thefubjctt'schang'd, which fecret was to us, But not the mind, that did difpofe it thus; Denounced Judgment God doch oft prevent, But neirher-ch-; nges ·coun(el, nor intent; ·rhcvo:ce of Heaven d<:Jth feldum threat perdition, But with exprcfs, or an impli'd condition, · -;. So that, if 'liniveiJ return trom ill, . ~ God turns his hand, he dGth not turn his Will. The frint o( ?{jnivehwas. .forty days, 'fo change d!e. bias ·of her crooked ways : To fomc the time is large ; to others fmall ; T<) fome 'I is many years ; And not a~ an ' I To others ; Same an hoJr luvc, and 1ome Have i'~rce axuinute: of thc.ir time to •ome.: .. Thy
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