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If God had not a communicative, spreading goodness, he would never have created the world. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were happy in themselves, and enjoyed one another before the world was. But that God delights to communicate and spread his goodness, there had never been a creation nor redemption. God uses his creatures, not for defect of power, that he can do nothing without them, but for the spreading of his goodness; and thereupon comes all the subordination of one creature to another, and all to him. Oh that we had hearts to make way for such a goodness as God would cast into us, if we were as we should be. God’s goodness is a spreading, imparting goodness. (Sibbes, Successful Seeker, v. 6, 113.)
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:25:40 +0000

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