A47465:983
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.
3. God is infinitely Good, 1Goodness in Creatures is small, and but little, but in God there is an Ocean of Goodness; it is bankless, boundless, bottomless, our Goodness is like a drop of Water out of the Ocean; — nay, there is a greater disproportion between that Goodness which is in God, and that which is in Saints, than there is between the Main Ocean and one small drop of Water, or between a Beam of Light let into a Room, and the Sun it self.
- 1God infinitely good
4. God is Immutably and Unchangeably Good, 1as Goodness in God cannot be augmented, so it cannot be diminished, he cannot change or loose his Goodness, no not the least degree thereof;2 I am God I change not—He is the same Yesterday, to Day, and for ever: God made Man good and upright, but he long abode not so; all things in the first Creation are subject ⟨p. 232⟩to change, but so is not the Blessed God and Creator.
4. God is Immutably and Ʋnchangably Good, 1as Goodness in God cannot be augmented, so it cannot be diminished, he cannot change or loose his Goodness, no not the least degree thereof;2 I am God I change not—He is the same Yesterday, to Day, and for ever: God made Man good and upright, but he long abode not so; all things in the first Creation are subject ⟨p. 232⟩