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We are not to view God partially but as far as we can compleatly, as the Fountain of all Perfection, as containing in his Nature an Harmony of all that is excellent and glorious. He has a Right to do, and He can do whatsoever He pleases in all his wide-extended Dominions, yet what He pleases is always worthy of himself. He is the Aggregate, the System of Excellence, and one Attribute never displays itself to the Diminution or Eclipse of another. As He is the greatest, so He is the best of Beings. Wisdom dwells eternally and essentially in the divine Will, and who possessed of so much Reason as its unoriginated and indefectible Source? Though none can limit God, yet He, with Reverence be it spoken, limits himself, limits himself by the Rule which infinite Wisdom prescribes to infinite Power.

Thomas Gibbons — Thomas Gibbons, M.A., Divine Conduct Vindicated, or the Operations of God Shown to Be the Operations of Wisdom: in the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached at Haberdashers-Hall, London, March 29, 1761; Occasioned by the Decease of the Rev. Mr Samuel Davies, M.A., and President of the College of Nassau-Hall in New-Jersey, February 4, 1761 (London: J. Buckland, E. and C. Dilly, T. Field, and J. Stevens, 1761), p. 15

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Thomas Gibbons, M.A., Divine Conduct Vindicated, or the Operations of God Shown to Be the Operations of Wisdom: in the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached at Haberdashers-Hall, London, March 29, 1761; Occasioned by the Decease of the Rev. Mr Samuel Davies, M.A., and President of the College of Nassau-Hall in New-Jersey, February 4, 1761 (London: J. Buckland, E. and C. Dilly, T. Field, and J. Stevens, 1761), p. 15
Thomas Gibbons, Thomas Gibbons, M.A., Divine Conduct Vindicated, or the Operations of God Shown to Be the Operations of Wisdom: in the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached at Haberdashers-Hall, London, March 29, 1761; Occasioned by the Decease of the Rev. Mr Samuel Davies, M.A., and President of the College of Nassau-Hall in New-Jersey, February 4, 1761 (London: J. Buckland, E. and C. Dilly, T. Field, and J. Stevens, 1761), p. 15 (archive.org) - Thomas Gibbons, M.A., Divine Conduct Vindicated, or the Operations of God Shown to Be the Operations of Wisdom: in the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached at Haberdashers-Hall, London, March 29, 1761; Occasioned by the Decease of the Rev. Mr Samuel Davies, M.A., and President of the College of Nassau-Hall in New-Jersey, February 4, 1761 (London: J. Buckland, E. and C. Dilly, T. Field, and J. Stevens, 1761), p. 15
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