“God’s goodness is a communicative, spreading goodness. . . . If God had not a communicative, spreading goodness, he would never have created the world. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost were happy in themselves and enjoyed one another before the world was. But that God delights to communicate and spread his goodness, there had never been a creation nor a redemption. God uses his creatures not for defect of power, that he can do nothing without them, but for the spreading of his goodness. . . .
Oh that we had hearts to make way for such a goodness as God would cast into us, if we were as we should be. God’s goodness is a spreading, imparting goodness.”
Richard Sibbes, Works (Edinburgh, 1983), VI:113.
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