394 VERSE 4. a Humana ca- pacitati aptiora pans Divine fublimitati,&c. Vid. ..15g,Tos 4.ad z. vid. dcCivi.Dci,llb. 14.eapI cap.z5.Tertul, Con.Maro.l.z. cap.' 6. b Vbi legitur quod pceniteat eum,mutatio re rumfignificatar immutabili ma- nente prafeien- tiii divind. Aug. de civi,Dei, lib. 17.cap.7.& lib. Martyr, Rucft. &RO.adOr- tbodomu.36. HOP, godislaid toA,epent,, hitnne variablenefe nor/fade" ofcbanging: He is not a man that bee fbould repent. I the Lordchangenot : 1 . c7.T SOtt.15.29: /114/.3. 6. Only in mercyUnto a our weakneffe God condefcends unto the manner of ha. mane exprefflont, retaining fill the fiedfafineffe of his owne working, which receiveth no variationnor diffe- rence from the contingenciesof fecond caufes. He fpea- keth according to our capacitie, but he worketh accor, ding to his owne counfell, fo that God is thenlaid tore_ pent, when that which he once willed tobe, bee after by the counfellofthe fame will, caufeth not to be; therein not changing his owne.ounfel 1, but onlywilling the change of the thing:, that the fame thing for this period of time shall be, and then thanceafe. As when a rope is fixed to either fide of a River,by the fame without any manner change or alteration in it, I draw the boate wherein I am, backward or forward : fo the fame will and counfell ofGod fiands conflant and unmoved, in the feverall mu- tations of thole things which ate wrought or removed, by it. Now then, when not onely the counfell ofGod is immutable in it felfe, but alfo bee bath ordained come Law, Covenantor Office, which bee will have forever to endure, without either natural! expiration, or exter- nall aboliihment, then is God faid not to repent. To ap- ply this to tl-e prefent bufineffe ; the ApotlIe (peaking of a newcovenant-which is efiablifhed upon this new iefihood ofChriff(for the Prieflhoods and theLawes goe both together, the one being changed,there is made ofneceflitie a changeofthe other; Ho. 7.r 2.) maketh the introducingofthis new Covenant, which is founded upon the OathofGod, tomake the preceding covenant old and tranfitory : In that feefaith; rf newCovenant, be bathmade thefirfl old: Now that whichdecayeth and waxethold, it ready towraith away, He6 .8 .I 3. And bee faithperemptorily that it was therefore difannul'd, be- cz.tufe
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