Puritan Wisdom

On Hebrews 2:5-9 – “[God’s] blessedness is absolute, because it is from himself and him himself, in his being every way self-sufficient. This it is to be absolutely blessed. Hence, God made not these things because he had need of them, for if he had need of any of them he could not have made them; or that they should add anything unto him, for that is not infinite unto which anything can be added; or that he might settle that rest and satisfaction in them which he had not in himself before, for that alone, which is infinite, must necessarily and unavoidably give eternal satisfaction unto that which is infinite: but only by most free act of his will, he chose by the creation of all things to express somewhat of his power, wisdom, and goodness and something without himself.”  – John Owen, Epistle to the Hebrews, volume 3, 347.