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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
If we would have good wrought in us, let us look up to God. As rivers are supplied from the sea, the gathering together of all goodness is in God: Exod. 31:13, 'I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.' All we have is a derivation from his fulness, and as a candle lighted at a torch doth not diminish the light of the torch, so God doth not lose by givinghttps://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
God is immutably good; it cannot be diminished or augmented, for in infiniteness there are no degrees; it can never be more than it is, or less than it is; for God actually hath all possible perfection; there can be no addition made to ithttps://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
God is infinitely good. A creature's goodness is limited, but since the perfection of God is from himself, and not from another, there is nothing to limit it or to give it any measure, and therefore it must be infinite.https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
He is essentially good. Not only good, but goodness itself. Goodness in us is an accessory quality, or a superadded gift, but in God it is not a quality, but his essence. The goodness of God and the goodness of a creature differs, as a thing whose substance is gold differs from that which is gilded and overlaid with gold. A vessel of pure gold, the matter itself gives lustre to it; but in a gilded vessel, the outward lustre is one thing, and the substance is another. https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
The goodness of God cometh under a twofold consideration—there is his goodness in himself, and his goodness to us. The one implies the perfection and excellency of his nature, the other his will and self propension to diffuse his benefits; the one his perfection, the other his bounty.https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.
That Scripture counsels marriage, however, and never allows any release from the union, is expressly contained in the law: 'You shall not divorce a wife, except for reason of immorality.' And it regards as adultery the marriage of a spouse, while the one from whom a separation was made is still alive. 'Whoever takes a divorced woman as wife commits adultery,' it says; for 'if anyone divorce his wife, he debauches her'; that is, he compels her to commit adultery. And not only does he that divorces her become the cause of this, but also he that takes the woman and gives her the opportunity of sinning; for if he did not take her, she would return to her husbandMiscellanies 2:23:145:3 [A.D. 208]
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