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Orthodox Doctrine (Summary of Christian Divinity)

Metropolitan Platon of Moscow, tr. Pinkerton, 1814

4. Part 1, Section 4: What is God?

Having obtained the knowledge of the existence of God, we represent him to ourselves as a Being most exalted, who, independent of every one, is of himself, and cannot but exist.

If God be the maker of all things, then it is impossible for him to be indebted for his existence to any thing: otherwise we would be obliged to confess, that there is a cause higher and more powerful than God, which is altogether contrary to the conceptions we have of Deity.

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