Look at all the variety of creatures, they are what they are, for this only end, that in their infinite variety, degrees, and capacities, they may be as so many speaking figures, so many sounds and voices, preachers and trumpets, giving glory and praise, and thanksgiving to that Deity of love, which gives life to all nature. For every creature, call it by what name you will, had its form, and power, and state, and place in nature for no other end, but to open and enjoy, to manifest and rejoice in some share of the love and happiness, and goodness of the Deity. Now this is the _one will_ and work of God, in, and through all creatures. From eternity to eternity he can will, and intend nothing towards them, in them, or by them, but the _communication_ of various degrees of his own love, goodness and happiness to them, according to their state and place, and capacity. This is God’s unchangeable disposition towards the creature; he can be nothing else, but all goodness towards it; because he can be nothing towards the creature, but that which he is, and was, and ever shall be in himself. _Theogenes._ Pray, _Theophilus_, let me ask you, Does not patience and pity, and mercy begin to be in God, and only then begin, when the creature has brought forth itself into misery? They could have no existence in the Deity before. _Theophilus._ ’Tis true, _Theogenes_, that God can only then begin to make known his mercy and patience, when the creature has lost its rectitude and happiness; yet nothing then begins to be in God, or to be found in him, but that which was always in him, in the same infinite state, _viz._ a _will to all goodness_, and which _can will nothing else_. And his patience and mercy, which could not shew forth themselves, till sin had brought forth misery, were not new tempers, or the beginning of some _new_ disposition, that was not in God before, but only _new_ and _occasional_ manifestations of that boundless, _eternal will_ to _all goodness_, which always was in God in the same height and depth. The will to all _goodness_, which is God himself, _began_ to display itself in a new way, when it first gave birth to creatures. The same will to all goodness began to manifest itself in another new way, when it became patience and compassion towards fallen creatures. But neither of these ways are the beginning of any new tempers or qualities in God, but only new and occasional manifestations of that true eternal will to all goodness, which always was, and always will be, in the same fulness in God.