2. Actions to be done not merely from natural but also from supernatural motives, and without admixture 9. 3. The glory of Heaven the reward of 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- Vocation to the Priesthood and to the 7. God strictly requires the keeping of 14. On almsgiving, 860 2. Three glimpses of Heaven, 903 1. The Transfiguration of Christ, 2. The glory of God shown to St. 3. The glory of God shown to Solo- 3. The Garden of Eden, a type of the 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 Almighty is His name. Ex Ex 1 Is 4 of Israel: HE WHO IS hath Adore not any strange God: Ex 34 They shall know that My Je 16, name is the Lord. The Lord is His name. 2. HIS ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE. He is before all time. I AM WHO AM. He said:/ If it be not He, who is it, Thou art from everlasting. 3. -HIS SIMPLICITY God is a spirit. To whom, then, have you Am E He 11, Eci 1 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, They changed the glory of Ro1,2 Dt 6, 4 W14, 21 Is 43, 10 Is 44, 6 Our God is one Lord. graven things. Me. I will kill, and I will I will not give My glory to 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 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. P118, 151 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 |