Jeremiah 15

Jeremiah 15:6

I am weary with repenting] God repents, see Gen. VI. 6, 7. and in many other places. But this is not properly Repentance, such as is in man. Man Repents with trouble of minde and conscience, for some fault, or out of ficklenesse, or through some oversight, or impotence. In which respects God cannot Repent, Num. XXIII. 19. 1 Sam.

XV. 29. Mal. III. 6. Iames I. 17. But he is said to Repent improperly. And so this, and other Humane Passions, in some semblance, are ascribed to him improperly for our better apprehension.

And thus God is said to Repent, when he doth as men use to do when they Repent, 1 Sam. XXV. 33, 34. When he undoeth what he had done before, revoketh a doome that he had passed before, stayeth the execution of a Sentence that formerly he had denounced, withholdeth the punishment denounced against sinne when the Persons repent of the evil of sinne. So, Iudg. X 13. 15, 16. 1 Kings XXI. 21, 27, 29. Ionah II. 10.

Ier. XVIII. 8, 10. and XLII 10. Psal. CVI. 45. The end being thus accomplished for which the doome was denounced: Without which Repentance in man, God will not Repent of his purposed punishment; Esay XIV. 24, 27. Ier.

IV. 28. Zech. VIII. 14. Thus Repentance in man produceth this kinde of Repentance in God. Man Repenting changeth his minde, will, and act: But God Repenting, willing this change in man, altereth the act; His minde and purpose abiding still the same, Ier. XX. 16.