400 VERSE 4. The Immutability of able mercyand covenant. This wasall Disvidi falvati- on and &fire, all that hisheart retied upon,that though his houfe were not fo with God,that is,did faikmuch of that beautie and puritie which therein God required, and therefore did defcrve to be call off, yet God had made with him an everlafling covenant ordered in ail thing: andfare, aSarti.a;.5. When theconfcience isaf- Rifted with the fenfeof finne, with the fareofitsowne ilipperineffe and untledfattneffe in Gods covenant, this As all it bath to fupport it, That god la one, galath.3.19. That Chriti is the fame yeilerday, and to day, andfor ever, Ho.t 3.8. that he is where he ever was ready to meet thole that retarne, Efay 64. 5. Lake 15. so. If I fbould doe to rnen, as I have done to God, they would defpife, forfake, revenge themfelves onme, I tbouldne- ver receive gracenor favour againe. But God is sot at MO, r.9. the wholecaufeof his compaffion is in and from hitnfelfe, and therefore he cloth not take the advantage ofour failingsand exafperations, to alter the courfe of his dealing towards us, FM.. 103. 8-x4. Thoughwe faile every day, yet.hiscompaffionsfaile not, and therefore from his immutable mercy it is that wee are not comfumed, Lato.3.22.A141. 3.6. His bleiling of anadopted people is an irreverfible thing, becaufe he is God and not man, and therefore cannot repent, nor call in theprotnife which he bath made, for which purpofe bee loth not kehold snigxitie it Jacob, nor perverlexere in Ifiwel,Namb.23.19, 20, 2 t. If the Sunne fhould be alwayes immoveablyfixed inone place, as it was a lit- tie while in hiarai tirneat the defirtietionofthe Kings, loth.' o. i am. though I might &it out thelight of the Sunne fromme, yet as cameas I remove the curten, the Sunne is Rill where it was, =die to be found, and to Chine upon me. The cafe were lamentable with us, if fo oftenas man provokes Gods jullice, he should prefcntly revoke his merry; ifthe iffue ofour falvation (honk' depend
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