PART III.

INTRODUCTION.

ON MERIT, 845.

1. The integrity and perfection of good)

works, 847

8.

2. Actions to be done not merely from

natural but also from supernatural

motives, and without admixture 9.

of sin, 847

3. The glory of Heaven the reward of

good works, 848

4. Increasing grace and prosperity 10.

follow on gooi works, 848

11.

13.

5. To love God is to obey God, and to 12.

keep His commandments, 849

6. The Ten Commandments, 850

His commandments, 852

The liberty of the sons of God clashes

not with filial subjection; no sin

without free act of the will, 853

God's commandments are possible in

practice; charity, the fulfilment of

the law, is not lost by slight fail-

ings, 853

On prayer, 854

Fasting and abstinence, 856

On vows, 857

Vocation to the Priesthood and to the

religious state, 858

7. God strictly requires the keeping of 14. On almsgiving, 860

6. Death not to be feared; desired 6. An allusion to the general Resurrec-

by the good, 868

tion, 875

INDEX-915.

THE SCRIPTURE TEXT-BOOK.

BOOK I.

ON GOD,

ONE IN NATURE AND THREE IN PERSONS, AUTHOR OF ALL THINGS;

AND

ON THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF HIS HANDS.

Sacred Scripture treats of:

(1) The Divine Essence and Existence, and the Divine Attributes, negative and affirmative, which belong to God as One in Essence.

(2) The Ever Blessed Trinity: namely, God as Three in Persons.

(3) Created things, and in particular of Angels and of men.

(4) Jesus Christ, the Divine Expiator of the sins of the world; the God-Man, “Who is the Image of the Invisible God, the First-born of every creature; for in Him were all things created, and He is before all, and by Him all things consist, that in all things He may hold the primacy."-Col. i. 15.

(5) The Holy Virgin Mary, His Blessed Mother, and Queen of Angels and of Saints.

B

PART I.

GOD AND HIS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

Ex 3, 14

15

Ex 3, 14

Je 7, 11 Jb 9, 24

Ps 92, 2

Jn 4, 24 1J1,5

Is 40, 18

Ac 17, 29

1. NAMES OF GOD.

God said to Moses: I AM My name ADONAI I did
WHO AM. He said: Thus not show them.
shalt thou say to the children

Almighty is His name.

Ex

Ex 1

Is 4

of Israel: HE WHO IS hath Adore not any strange God: Ex 34
sent me to you.-And God the Lord His name is jealous,
said again to Moses: Thus He is a jealous God.
shalt thou say to the children Our Redeemer, the Lord of
of Israel: The Lord God of hosts is His name, the Holy
your fathers, the God of One of Israel.
Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, hath
sent me to you: This is My
name for ever, and this is My
memorial unto all generations.

They shall know that My Je 16, name is the Lord.

The Lord is His name.
He is not ashamed to be
called their God.

2. HIS ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE.

He is before all time.
Before Abraham was made,

I AM WHO AM. He said:/
Thus shalt thou say to the
children of Israel: HE WHO I am.
IS hath sent me to you.
I, I am He.

If it be not He, who is it,
then?

Thou art from everlasting.

3.

-HIS SIMPLICITY

God is a spirit.
God is light, and in Him
there is no darkness.

To whom, then, have you
likened God? or what image
will you make of Him?

Am E

He 11,

Eci 1
Jn 8,

He that cometh to God He 11 must believe that He is.

The fool said in his heart: Ps 52, There is no God.

AND INCORPOREALITY,
ing of art, and device of mar
Professing themselves to be Rol,?
wise, they became fools.

They changed the glory of Ro1,2
the incorruptible God into the
likeness of the image of a
We must not suppose the corruptible man, and of birds,
Divinity to be like unto gold, and of four-footed beasts, and
or silver, or stone, the grav- of creeping things.

Dt 6, 4
Dt 32, 39

W14, 21

Is 43, 10

Is 44, 6

Our God is one Lord.
I am the Lord, and there is
See ye that I alone am, and none else: there is no God
there is no other God besides besides Me.

graven things.

Me. I will kill, and I will I will not give My glory to
make to live; I will strike, another, nor My praise to
and I will heal: and there is
none that can deliver out of I am the Lord thy God
My hand.
from the land of Egypt: and
thou shalt know no God but
Me, and there is no saviour
besides Me.

They gave the incommunicable names to stones and wood.

Before Me there was no God formed, and after Me there shall be none.

Is 45, 5

Is 42, 8

Os 13, 4

5.-GOD, TRUTH AND LIFE.

I am the first, and I am the last, and besides Me there is no God.

Je 10, 10

Dt 32, 4

Nu 23, 19

But the Lord is the true Daniel, for He is the Living
God.

God is faithful, and without any iniquity.

God is not as man, that He should lie; nor as the son of man, that He should be changed. Hath He said, then, and will He not do? hath He spoken, and will He not fulfil?

God.

Da 6, 26

All Thy ways are truth.
Just and true are Thy ways,
Let all fear the God of O King of Ages.

P118, 151
Ap 15, 3

Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? Say not: It is through God Eci 15, 11 that she (Wisdom) is not with me: for do not thou the things that He hateth. Say not: He Doth it seem good to Thee hath caused me to err: for that Thou shouldst calum- He hath no need of wicked niate me, and oppress me, men. The Lord hateth all the work of Thy own hands, abomination of error, and