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[ 1315] Gods Immutability.
A Man travelling upon the Road,* 1.1 espies some great Castle, sometimes it seems to be nigh, another time afar off; now on this hand, anon on that; now before, by and by behind; when all the while it standeth still unmoved: So a Man that goes in a boat by water, thinks the shore moveth, whereas it is not the shore, but the boat that passeth away. Thus it is with God, sometimes he seemeth to be angry with the Sons of Men, another time to be well pleased; now to be at hand, anon at a distance; now shewing the light of his Countenance, by and by hiding his face in displeasure;* 1.2 yet he is not changed at all.* 1.3 It is we, not he that is changed.* 1.4 He is Immutable in his Nature, in his Counsels, and in all his Promises; whereas all Creatures have and are subject to change, having their dependance on some more powerfull Agent, but God being onely indepen∣dent, is (as the School-men say) omninò immutabilis, altogether immutable.