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John Tillotson

Discourses on the Attributes of God

Sermon on the Goodness of God

[1700] John Tillotson, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, "Sermon on the Goodness of God," in The Remaining Discourses on the Attributes of God, vol. 7 (London, 1700; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

Creatures, that want reason and understanding, are incapable of this Moral Goodness we are speaking of; Man is the first in the rank of Creatures that is endowed with it, and he is said to be made after the image of God, and to have dominion given him over the Creatures below him, to signifie to us, that if man had not been made after God's image, in respect of Goodness, he had been unfit to rule over other Creatures; because without Goodness, dominion would be Tyranny and Oppression. (112-3)