A47465:980
The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…
The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by S. Bridge, 1698
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.
II. His Communicative Goodness, or that which God hath wrought out, laid up, and which he lets forth to Believers;1 O how great is thy Goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee? Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the Children of Men—The Earth is full of the Goodness of the Lord: 2I will make all my Goodness pass before thee, 3&c. My Excellency, or my Glory. This is that which we call the declarative Goodness of God.
1. God is Absolutely Good in the Perfection of his Being, he is independently Good, there is nothing wanting in him, no defection, he subsisteth in and of himself, he needeth not us, and there can be no addition made to his Goodness to make it more than it is.
2. God is originally and essentially Good, 1