#6 Communicating Goodness throughout
Jan Bruegel the Elder -- Garden of Eden Pryr-1.1-18] It is the Goodness of God that breaks forth into a Desire to communicate Good, and it was the sole Cause of the Beginning of Creation., which is stated right at the start of Genesis: And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen.1. Hence it follows, that for all Eternity, God can have no Thought, or Intent towards the Creature, but to communicate Good; that idea that He, the Creator is Good and that his Creation and Creature are the same: beneficient, kind and virtuous. So it stands to figure, that God made the Creature for this sole End: to receive Goodness and its like. So now that we understand the amiable Nature of God; i.e. that he the Good, a unchangeable, overflowing Fountain of Good, and that He is the Love itself, giving nothing but Gifts of Love, to every Thing that He has made and requiring nothing of all his Creatures, but that in return share the Spirit and Fruits of that Love. T...