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God may be good, nay, infinitely good, though he be not bound to render every creature happy to the uttermost. A magistrate may be very good and benevolent, though he do not adopt all his subjects to be his children or heirs.
John Brown
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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.
God's Goodness0God in our nature, and doing all for us, and being all to us, free grace reigning through His imputed righteousness, God's free grant of Christ and His salvation, and of Himself in Christ, and the believing appropriation founded on that grant, and the comfort and holiness of heart and life flowing from that, have been my most delightful themes.
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Be short in the pulpit and the family; in the closet you may be as long as you please
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The principal exercises of religion, or virtue, respecting God, which the law of nature requires, are, 1. To contemplate him as the reason and pattern of our conduct. 2. To adore him with our soul and body as one possessed of infinite perfection. 3. To love him as one infinitely amiable and benevolent. 4. To observe and acknowledge his manifold and diversified providences, and act answerably to them. 5. To acquiesce in the whole of his will as wise and good. 6. To consider and trust in his power, wisdom, and goodness. 7. To be chiefly careful to please him, and to imitate him in his moral excellencies, who is infinitely perfect in himself, and on whose favour and the enjoyment of him, our true happiness wholly depends. 8. Cordially to listen to, believe, receive, and obey every further declaration of his will, which he is pleased to make to us.
https://www.monergism.com/systematic-theology-john-brown-haddington-ebookReligion0 The belief of God's infinity, instead of discouraging, strongly encourageth us to the diligent contemplation of Him,—as much important and delightful truth concerning him, may be known, though he can never be fully and comprehensively known by us
https://www.monergism.com/systematic-theology-john-brown-haddington-ebookGod's Infinity0The existence of God is no less evident than our own.
https://www.monergism.com/systematic-theology-john-brown-haddington-ebookExistence of God0If 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 giving
https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebookGod's Goodness0 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 it
https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebookGod's Goodness0 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-ebookGod's Goodness0He 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-ebookGod's Goodness0 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-ebookGod's Goodness0We 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.
God's Goodness0God is not involuntarily good, the way a fire is involuntarily hot. In him, goodness is voluntary... he does not do good by necessity, but by his own free choice.
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