Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.

Quest. 8. If God made man and all things, Did he not make them for himself, for the pleasure of his own will? Must be not needs in reason be the end of all, who is the Beginning and cause of all? And is not that means the Best, which is aptest to the End? And doth not the proper Goodness of a means consist in its aptitude to promote the End? And then is not that the Goodness of all Creatures, (partly to be what the Creatour efficiently maketh them, and partly) to fulfil Page  20 his will, and what Creature hath not this Goodness a•… to the absolute will of his Decrees which all ful∣fill.