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  1      I, 9 |         have been, because of His goodness, especially as He is (supposed,
  2      I, 17|        supreme and most excellent goodness, which is preferable to (
  3      I, 17|          was, the greater was his goodness), he ought never to have
  4      I, 22|          XXII. GOD'S ATTRIBUTE OF GOODNESS CONSIDERED AS NATURAL; THE
  5      I, 22|         rules for examining God's goodness. My first point, however,
  6      I, 22|        Creator, against which the goodness of the other god should
  7      I, 22|        primary rule of the divine goodness (if it were to prove itself
  8      I, 22|      eternity. In God, therefore, goodness is required to be both perpetual
  9      I, 22|           I must inquire, Why his goodness did not operate from the
 10      I, 22|         had to be revealed by his goodness if he had any existence.
 11      I, 22|         of inactivity. Hence (His goodness) is reckoned as having a
 12      I, 22|     unwillingness to exercise His goodness at any time on account of
 13      I, 22|           Marcion's god, however, goodness ceased from operation at
 14      I, 22|          at some time or other. A goodness, therefore, which could
 15      I, 22|           Forasmuch, then, as the goodness of Marcion's god failed
 16      I, 22|           a wilful suppression of goodness will be found to have a
 17      I, 22|        the retardation of his own goodness. For whosoever has it in
 18      I, 22|       grace, prevaricating in his goodness, which he did not exhibit
 19      I, 22|        fit for Tiberius, that the goodness of the Divine Being might
 20      I, 23|         XXIII. GOD'S ATTRIBUTE OF GOODNESS CONSIDERED AS RATIONAL.
 21      I, 23|          DEFECTIVE HERE ALSO; HIS GOODNESS IRRATIONAL AND MISAPPLIED.~
 22      I, 23|           I require reason in His goodness, because nothing else can
 23      I, 23|    rationally good; much less can goodness itself be detected in any
 24      I, 23|         evil. Now I deny that the goodness of Marcion's god is rational,
 25      I, 23|      rather a primary and perfect goodness which is shed voluntarily
 26      I, 23|      reasonableness of the divine goodness is that it displays itself
 27      I, 23|         object, and who makes his goodness on this very account defective?
 28      I, 23|            Suppose now the divine goodness begin at the second stage
 29      I, 23|          even the second stage of goodness, that which is displayed
 30      I, 23|         everything else makes all goodness rational. It will thus be
 31      I, 23|     unrighteous. But what sort of goodness is that which is manifested
 32      I, 24|                         XXIV. THE GOODNESS OF MARCION'S GOD ONLY IMPERFECTLY
 33      I, 24|             Prove, then, that the goodness of your god also is a perfect
 34      I, 24|         thus perish, how can that goodness be defended as a perfect
 35      I, 24|    salvation, it will not be with goodness, but with malignity, that
 36      I, 24|         as it is the operation of goodness which brings salvation,
 37      I, 24|          it. Since, however, this goodness) saves but few, and so rather
 38      I, 24|          not be able to attribute goodness (to your god) in reference
 39      I, 24|           it is as a dispenser of goodness, if so be such a title can
 40      I, 24|          the simple ground of his goodness, and since he professes
 41      I, 24|     Marcion's god is imperfect in goodness because of the perdition
 42      I, 24|          if not from a failure of goodness? What could have been a
 43      I, 24|         better proof of a perfect goodness, than the recovery of the
 44      I, 24|            So that in this matter goodness is unjust, and likewise
 45      I, 24|         perfect character of that goodness which did not fail in some
 46      I, 24|          The proof of the perfect goodness is, that man, after his
 47      I, 25|          IS NOT A BEING OF SIMPLE GOODNESS; OTHER ATTRIBUTES BELONG
 48      I, 25|         touching this question of goodness, we have in these outlines
 49      I, 25|      unworthy of the very name of goodness, because, as far as the
 50      I, 25|         is alleged to have such a goodness, and that not in a modified
 51      I, 25|     regarded as a Being of simple goodness, to the exclusion of all
 52      I, 25|         of man is an operation of goodness, it follows that this goodness
 53      I, 25|    goodness, it follows that this goodness avails nothing without its
 54      I, 26|          exposition of his lonely goodness, in which they refuse to
 55      I, 26|           of the divine virtue or goodness, to be unwilling indeed
 56      I, 27|        will turn out an imaginary goodness, a phantom of discipline,
 57      I, 29|       whom to set the mark of his goodness, when he suffers him not
 58     II, 3 |           KNOWN BY HIS WORKS. HIS GOODNESS SHOWN IN HIS CREATIVE ENERGY;
 59     II, 3 |           THE FIRST STAGE OF THIS GOODNESS PRIOR TO MAN.~It will therefore
 60     II, 3 |         prior to man; so that His goodness, being discovered immediately
 61     II, 3 |       able, while recognising the goodness of our God, to learn how
 62     II, 3 |         of his own god. The first goodness, then, was that of the Creator,
 63     II, 3 |        developing His own perfect goodness, for the accomplishment
 64     II, 3 |  transpire; not, indeed, a sudden goodness issuing m some accidental
 65     II, 3 |        this temporal course, (the goodness) which created time had
 66     II, 3 |          beginning which the same goodness originated, had it a beginning.
 67     II, 3 |       possibly have been found in goodness.~
 68     II, 4 |           OF MAN'S FREE-WILL.~The goodness of God having, therefore,
 69     II, 4 |           it; and consummated the goodness of His works by His vouchsafing
 70     II, 4 |        image was wrought out by a goodness even more operative than
 71     II, 4 |       image, after our likeness." Goodness spake the word; Goodness
 72     II, 4 |          Goodness spake the word; Goodness formed man of the dust of
 73     II, 4 |           with so many qualities; Goodness breathed into him a soul,
 74     II, 4 |        soul, not dead but living. Goodness gave him dominion over all
 75     II, 4 |          to. In addition to this, Goodness annexed pleasures to man
 76     II, 4 |         the Church. The self-same Goodness provided also a help meet
 77     II, 4 | contention, was imposed on man by Goodness, aiming at his happiness,
 78     II, 4 |           observance of this law, Goodness likewise took counsel by
 79     II, 4 |          incurred. Learn then the goodness of our God amidst these
 80     II, 5 |           in question namely, His goodness and foreknowledge, and power.
 81     II, 5 |      works testify at once to His goodness, since they are good, as
 82     II, 6 |           ALSO FOR EXHIBITING THE GOODNESS AND THE PURPOSE OF GOD.
 83     II, 6 |          be protected by both the goodness of God and by His purpose,
 84     II, 6 |     purpose is no purpose without goodness; nor is His goodness goodness
 85     II, 6 |      without goodness; nor is His goodness goodness without a purpose,
 86     II, 6 |     goodness; nor is His goodness goodness without a purpose, except
 87     II, 6 |           a slave to himself? The goodness of God, then, you can learn
 88     II, 6 |     things. At present, let God's goodness alone occupy our attention,
 89     II, 6 |  therefore, that man might have a goodness of his own, bestowed on
 90     II, 6 |      sense a natural attribute of goodness, there was assigned to him
 91     II, 6 |           a formal witness of the goodness which God bestowed upon
 92     II, 6 |       required in the matter of a goodness which was to be voluntarily
 93     II, 6 |          if he should display his goodness in accordance with his natural
 94     II, 6 |        Since, therefore, both the goodness and purpose of God are discovered
 95     II, 6 |        the original definition of goodness and purpose which it was
 96     II, 6 |         purpose. To conclude: the goodness of God, then fully considered
 97     II, 7 |   CONSISTENTLY WITH HIS TRUTH AND GOODNESS.~By such a conclusion all
 98     II, 7 |          to God; both His natural goodness, and the purposes of His
 99     II, 7 |          with set purpose, and in goodness. But, suppose God had interposed;
100     II, 10|       with the purpose of His own goodness, deferring the devil's destruction
101     II, 11|           WAS COMPATIBLE WITH HIS GOODNESS, AND ENHANCES THE TRUE IDEA
102     II, 11|           blush. Thus God's prior goodness was from nature, His subsequent
103     II, 11|        have rightly permitted His goodness to have gone on inoperative,
104     II, 11|        injustice to the titles of goodness. But then justice is an
105     II, 11|   regarded as simply a species of goodness, but as the practical observance
106     II, 11|         observance of it, because goodness (unless justice be so controlled
107     II, 11|           to be just) will not be goodness, if it be unjust. For nothing
108     II, 12|            XII. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOODNESS AND JUSTICE SHOULD NOT BE
109     II, 12|       union and agreement between goodness and justice, you cannot
110     II, 12| attributes advanced together. His goodness created, His justice arranged,
111     II, 12|      because it took counsel with goodness. The work of justice is
112     II, 12|        the earth-born animals. As goodness conceived all things, so
113     II, 12|          advanced in company with goodness, the author s of all things,
114     II, 13|          HAS REGULATED THE DIVINE GOODNESS, GOD'S CLAIMS ON OUR LOVE
115     II, 13|     afterwards broke out, and the goodness of God began now to have
116     II, 13|        even that of directing His goodness according to men's application
117     II, 13|         is the result: the divine goodness, being interrupted in that
118     II, 13|     respect becomes an agency for goodness: whatever it condemns by
119     II, 16|          very parent of them all, goodness, why do you form your opinion
120     II, 17|          WILL FIND IT FULL OF HIS GOODNESS.~These considerations show
121     II, 17|          His Catholic and supreme goodness, which, removed as it is
122     II, 17|      itself is inscribed with the goodness of its Maker, and the inscription
123     II, 19|           GOD IN PURSUANCE OF HIS GOODNESS. MANY BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES
124     II, 19|         ordained by the self-same goodness of God, teaching precepts
125     II, 19|          both the precepts of His goodness and the first-fruits thereof.~
126     II, 29|           these two attributes of goodness and justice do together
127     II, 29|          It willed to display Its goodness to those on whom It had
128     II, 29|          us that one was a God of goodness, the other a God of severity.
129     IV, 8 |    whereas he might in his simple goodness have at once treated them
130     IV, 9 |           Has He continued in his goodness (that is to say, in his
131     IV, 9 |          he has persevered in his goodness, he will never become a
132     IV, 9 |       because he has forsaken his goodness, in destroying the law.
133     IV, 9 |       have confessed that, in his goodness, he did in act what you
134     IV, 15|     insinuate a belief in his own goodness, invidiously contrasted
135      V, 11|         character of judgment and goodness "killing in the letter"