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Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted…
Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. 2. Is not all the Goodness of the whole Creation communicated from God? Did it make it self? or ⟨p. 14⟩who else made it? Are not all effects from their causes? And is he not the first cause? see what I have said to prove this fully in the aforesaid Treatise.
Quest. 3. Hath God made a world that is better than himself? Could he give more goodness than he had to give? Must not he needs be better than all his works?
Quest. 4. Is he fit to be quarrelled with for want of Goodness, who hath infinitely, more Goodness than the whole world besides: More than Sun and Stars, Heaven and Earth, Angels and Men, all set together in all their single ⟨p. 15⟩and their united, harmonious worth? If he be better than all, is he not most beyond accusation or exception?
Quest. 4. Is he fit to be quarrelled with for want of Goodness, who hath infinitely, more Goodness than the whole world besides: More than Sun and Starrs, Heaven and Earth, Angels and Men, all set together in all their single ⟨p. 15⟩and their united, harmonious worth? If he be better than all, is he not most beyond accusation or exception?