A System of Christian Doctrine #227005

Neither to supply a deficiency in His perfect Essence, nor on account of a superabundance of which He is supposed not to be master, God, of His perfection and blessedness in love, sets forth as a really second object a world, which He calls out of non — existence into existence,,that, loved and loving, it may be a relatively self-dependent image of His perfect triune nature and attributes.