Alexander Campbell On Moral Law

The universe is founded upon a moral idea. God did not create the universe because he had wisdom to design it. He did not create the universe because he had power to create it. For both wisdom and power are passive instruments. Goodness alone is necessarily, eternally, immutably active. It is essentially and perpetually communicative. It is communicative when it radiates and when it attracts. It is the cause of all motion. But for it, nothing would ever have been. The universe is, therefore, a necessary existence. It must be, because God was. It must be, because Jehovah was God—the absolute Good One.—Popular Addresses. p. 164