God is good. He is unlimitedly benevolent, without any opposite bias of heart. Those creatures who are opposite to him are evil. Malevolence constitutes the principle of their opposition. It is infinitely desirable that they should not be able to impede in the least, the execution of God's purposes. It is infinitely desirable that he should possess, and appear clothed with, supreme power; power adequate to all the ends of his administration. In the possession of such power, he is fitted to be the sole governor of the world, the manager of all events, the guardian of the moral system, the successful promoter of happiness, the refuge of the weak and needy, and is a meet object of universal unreserved confidence. Clothed with omnipotence, he must be beyond the possibility of disappointment.
Samuel Austin — Samuel Austin, D. D., Pastor of a Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, in The Columbian Preacher; or, a Collection of Original Sermons, from Preachers of Eminence in the United States, Embracing the Distinguishing Doctrines of Grace, vol. I, ed. Nathan Elliot (Catskill: Nathan Elliot, 1808), Sermon II, "God Glorified in Building up Zion," p. 33
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