...excellence, to him who is supremely, and strictly speaking, alone good, as being the source of all goodness, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works. Had all men been equally well provided for, they would have been independent of one another,...

...towards them. Who in such a representation can recognize the God of love, the infinite Father of mercies, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works, who delighteth in mercy, and is ever ready to forgive ? If the character of God be what the...

...savage beasts of prey, and to devils, who hasten from place to place to ruin and destroy. But God, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works, beholds them with abomination; and soon will pour his heavy judgments down upon their guilty...

...around us without perceiving the goodness and munificence of the great Creator ; of that immense Being, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works. Those little birds, though they have neither storehouse nor barn, are liberally provided for...

...bound to aim at the good of others, in imitation of the beneficence of the common Father of Mankind, " who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are Over all his works." Ps. cxlv. 9. That diffusive munificence of God, every where full in our view, has a powerful...

...towards them. Who in such a representation can recognize the God of love, the infinite Father of mercies, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works, who delighteth in mercy, and is ever ready to forgive? If the character of God be what the scriptures...

...first,.place, God, your Father in heaven. He, of whom the whole family in leaven and earth is named, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works ; He, I say, will unquestionably be pleased by your being truly pious and virtuous—Ye have...

...concluding decays and last end of this mortal life ; that we may always love one another, and glorify " the Lord, who is good to all, and whose tender mercies...which result from the arguments you have heard, are so obvions, that I make no doubt but your own thoughts have already anticipated them. Ingratitude among...

...principle exists in " God ? To impute infinite vindictiveness and implaca" bility to the Father of mercies, who is good to all, and " whose tender mercies are over all his works, and who " will ever be what be is, seeing he is incapable of " changing, would be to suppose...

...ideas which we are able to form of common justice, much less to the infinite benignity of him wTio is "good to all," and " whose tender mercies are over all his works" ! W hatever may have been the crimes committed or intended by a man during thefew years of his...