Goodness of the world; use of non-being for multitude
The world in itself is good — Genesis 1:31. Non-being formally is nothing, but effectively God: not because He effects nothing, but because He uses it, and orders it to the number and distinction of things.
For since in the production of things God shows the riches of His goodness participable in innumerable ways, and cannot be wholly or totally exhausted by one thing, He makes many things, but ordered to one, by using non-being, that multitude may stand. Hence in God there is one idea of Himself, which, as participable, is multiplex without end. Therefore non-being always distinguishes.
More, if you wish, see in Jerome Zanchi, Zacharias Ursinus, Amandus Polanus. For here I am forced to break off the web. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX, On those things which were created in the beginning, follows.
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Mundus in se bonus est — Gen. I.31. Non-ens formaliter est nihilum, effective autem Deus: non quia efficit nihilum, sed quia eo utitur, illudque ordinat ad rerum numerum ac discretionem. Cum enim in rerum productione Deus bonitatis suae divitias ostendat innumeris modis participabiles, neque possit ab una re tota vel totaliter exhauriri, facit res multas, sed ordinatas ad unum, utendo non ente, ut possit multitudo constare. Unde in Deo est una idea sui, quae, quatenus participabilis, est multiplex sine fine. Semper ergo to me on distinguit. Plura, si voles, vide apud Hieron. Zanchium, Zach. Ursinum, Amand. Polanum. Hic enim telam abrumpere cogor. CAPUT VICESIMUM SEXTUM, De iis quae creata sunt in principio, sequitur.