Rules 9-16; pastoral uses
9. God is always the same because of His essence, intellect, will, and power, as stated in Psalm 102:27-28. 10. God repents, not because He changes counsels, but benefits and judgments, as He decreed to change them. 11. What God under condition decrees, commands, promises, threatens, or does, argues His liberty, goodness, or severity, not mutability. 12. God does not depend on creatures, but decrees that He will do something through creatures and about them.
13. God, by creating, redeeming, and doing other things outside Himself, is not changed, but freely applies His omnipotence, clemency, and justice to various objects. 14. God from angry becomes placated and vice versa, not by change of essence, but by exchange of judgment with benefit. 15. Prayers, holiness, and evil life do not change God, but the works of God according to His decree. 16. The immutability of God serves faith, lest we take for God what changes; consolation, that we may be persuaded God will never change His goodwill toward us; and piety, that we too may be constant and immutable in the love of God and neighbor.
Latin
9. Deus semper idem est ratione essentiae, intellectus, voluntatis et potentiae suae, Psal. CII.27,28. 10. Deum poenitet, non quod mutet consilia, sed beneficia et judicia sua, sicut ea mutare decrevit. 11. Quae Deus sub conditione decernit, praecipit, promittit, comminatur, vel agit, ea arguunt ipsius libertatem, bonitatem, vel severitatem, non vero mutabilitatem. 12. Deus non dependet a creaturis, sed decernit se aliquid facturum per creaturas et circa eas. 13. Deus creando, redimendo et alia faciendo extra se, non mutatur, sed omnipotentiam, clementiam et justitiam suam libere applicat variis objectis. 14. Deus ex irato fit placatus et vicissim, non per mutationem essentiae, sed per commutationem judicii cum beneficio. 15. Preces, sanctitas et mala vita, non mutant Deum, sed opera Dei secundum decretum ejus. 16. Immutabilitas Dei facit ad fidem, ne id habeamus pro Deo quod mutatur; ad consolationem, ut persuasum habeamus Deum nunquam mutaturum suam erga nos benevolentiam; ad pietatem, ut simus et nos constantes immutabiles in amore Dei et proximi.