And he had done (if we may believe his Oath) as much for his Vineyard
as the Concurrence of his Infinite Power and Wisdome could effect without
disparagement to the Infinitie of his Majestie, or that Internal Law, of Rule
of Infinite Goodness whereby he created man after his own Image and
Similitude. (Thomas Jackson, ΜΑΡΑΝ ΑΘΑ: Or Dominus Veniet. Commentaries upon
These Articles of the Creed Never heretofore printed [London: A. Maxey,
1657], Book XI, 3776)
Would you conquer the Love of Riches, or Honour, or any thing else
that corrupteth your affections? Or try this sure and powerful way I Draw night
to God, and take the fullest view that thou canst, in thy most serious
Meditation of his Infinite goodness, an all things else will be vile in
thy esteem, and thy heart will soon contemn them and forget them, and thou wilt
never dote upon them more.
4. The Infinite goodness of God, should increase Repentance,
and win the soul to a more resolute chearful service of the Lord. O what a
heart is that which can offend, and wilfully offend so good a God! This is the
odiousness of sin, that it is an abuse of an Infinite good. This is the most
hainous damning agravation of it, that Infinite goodness could not
prevail with wretched souls against the empty flatting world! but that they
suffered a dream and shadow, to weigh down Infinite goodness in their
esteem. . . . But it is ten thousand times greater evil that every wicked man
is guilty of, that will rather forsake the Living God, and lose his part in Infinite
goodness, then he will let go his filthy and unprofitable sins . . .
(Richard Baxter, The Divine Life in Three Treatises [London: Francis
Tyson, 1664], 68)
Now what is there the mind of man can possibly excogitate more
expressive of a Being of infinite Perfection than Infinite Goodness,
Wisdom, and Power? (Bishop L. Womock, Deus Justificatus: or the Divine
Goodness vindicated [London: E. Cotes, 1668], 83)
