is 35, 4

Is 45, 1415

Je 23,5

Ba 3, 36

38

Mt 3, 16

shall be called Wonderful, hold a Voice from Heaven,
Counsellor, God the Mighty, saying: This is My Beloved
the Father of the world to Son, in Whom I am well
come, the Prince of peace. pleased.

God Himself will come Peter said: Thou art Mt 16, 16
and will save you; then Christ, the Son of the living
shall the eyes of the blind be God.

opened, and the ears of the In the beginning was the Jn 1, 1-3
deaf shall be unstopped; Word, and the Word was
then shall the lame man leap with God, and the Word
as a hart, and the tongue of was God.-The same was in
the dumb shall be free. the beginning with God.-
Thus saith the Lord: The All things were made by
labour of Egypt, and the Him, and without Him was
merchandise of Ethiopia and made nothing that was made.
of Sabaim, men of stature God so loved the world as Jn 3, 16
shall come over to Thee, and to give His Only Begotten
shall be Thine: they shall Son; that whosoever believ-
walk after Thee, they shall eth in Him may not perish,
go bound with manacles: but may have life everlasting.
and they shall worship Thee The Jews sought to kill Jn 5, 18
and shall make supplication Jesus, because He did not
to Thee: only in Thee is God, only break the Sabbath, but
and there is no God besides also said God was His Fa-
Thee. Verily Thou art a ther, making Himself equal
Hidden God, the God of to God.
Israel, the Saviour.

Before Abraham was made, Jn 8, 58 am.

I and the Father are One. You believe in God; believe also in Me.

Behold the days come, I saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a Just Branch; this is the name that they shall call Him: The Lord, our Just One.

Jn 10, 30

Jn 14, 1

Jn 16, 15

Jn 0,28

The Holy Ghost hath

Ac 20, 28

All things whatsoever the
Father hath are Mine.
Thomas said to Jesus: My
Lord and my God.

This is our God, and there
shall no other be accounted
of in comparison of Him.-
He found out all the way of placed you Bishops, to rule
knowledge, and gave it to the Church of God, which
Jacob His servant, and to He hath purchased with His
Israel His beloved.-After- Own Blood.

wards He was seen upon Of whom is Christ accord-
earth, and conversed with ing to the flesh, who is over
all things, God Blessed for

men.

Ro 9,5

Jesus being baptised, ever. forthwith came out of the Neither did I receive the Ga 1, 12 water and lo, the heavens Gospel of man, nor did I were opened to Him, and He learn it; but by the revela saw the Spirit of God tion of Jesus Christ.

descending as a dove, and

Christ Jesus being in the Ph 2,6

coming upon Him. And be- form of God, thought it not

robbery to be equal with the charity of God, because
God.
He hath laid down His Life
C71, 16-17 In Him were all things for us.

He 1, 3, 5

1 Jn 3, 16

2 K 23, 2

created in heaven and on There are Three Who give 1 Jn 5, 7-
earth, visible and invisible, testimony in Heaven, the 20
whether thrones, or domin- Father, the Word, and the
ations, or principalities, or Holy Ghost. And these Three
powers; all things were are One.-And we may be in
created by Him and in Him: His True Son. This is the
-And He is before all, and true God and Life Eternal.
by Him all things consist. Holy, Holy, Holy, LordAp 4, 8, 11
Who being the Brightness God Almighty, Who was, and
of His Glory and the Figure Who is, and Who is to come.
of His Substance:-For to-Thou art worthy, O Lord
which of the Angels hath He our God, to receive glory,
said at any time: Thou art and honour, and power.
My Son, to-day have I be- The Lamb shall overcome Ap 17, 14
gotten Thee?
them, because He is Lord of
In this we have known lords and King of kings.

4. THE HOLY GHOST, TRUE GOD, CONSUBSTANTIAL
WITH THE FATHER AND SON.

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The Spirit of the Lord man violate the temple of hath spoken by me, and His God, him shall God destroy. Word by my tongue: the God For the temple of God is of Israel said to me, the holy: which you are. Strong One of Israel spoke, Know you not that your 1 C6, 19the Ruler of men. members are the temple of Mt 28, 19 Going therefore, teach ye the Holy Ghost, Who is in all nations: baptising them you?-Glorify and bear God in the Name of the Father, in your body. and of the Son, and of the The holy men of God 2 Pt 1, 21 Holy Ghost. spoke, inspired by the Holy Peter said: Ananias, why Ghost. hath Satan tempted thy heart, At sundry times and in that thou shouldst lie to the divers manners God spoke by Holy Ghost?-Thou hast not the prophets. lied to men, but to God.

Ac 5, 3-4

1 C 3, 16

Jn 15, 26

He 1, 1

Take heed to yourselves, Ac 20, 28
Know you not that you and to the whole flock, where-
are the temple of God, and in the Holy Ghost hath
that the Spirit of God placed you Bishops, to rule
dwelleth in you?-But if any the Church of God.

5.—THE HOLY GHOST, PROCEeding from the
FATHER AND SON.

When the Paraclete com-ceedeth from the Father, He
eth, Whom I will send you will give testimony of Me.
from the Father, Who pro- He (the Holy Spirit) shall Jn 16, 14

In 20, 22

Ro 8, 9

Jn 5, 19

Ga 4, 4

1 C 3, 16

Jn 7, 16

Mt 10, 19

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Ro 8, 16

1 J2, 27

glorify Me; because He shall but in the spirit, if so be
receive of Mine, and shall that the Spirit of God dwell
show it to you.
in you.
Now if any man
He (Jesus) breathed on have not the Spirit of Christ,
them, and said to them: he is none of His.

Receive ye the Holy Ghost. All things whatsoever the Jn 16, 15
You are not in the flesh, Father hath are Mine.

6. THE EQUALITY, MISSION, AND WORK OF THE
THREE PERSONS.

What things soever the away the stony heart out of
Father doth, these the Son their flesh, and will give them
also doth in like manner. a heart of flesh :-That they
When the fulness of the may walk in My command-
time was come, God sent His ments, and keep My judg-
Son.
ments and do them: and
Know you not that you that they may be My people,
are the temple of God, and and I may be their God.
that the Spirit of God dwell-
eth in you?

My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me.

:

It shall come to pass after Л2, 28-29 this that will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters When they shall deliver shall prophesy, your old you up, take no thought how men shall dream dreams, and or what to speak, for it your young men shall see shall be given you in that visions.-Moreover, upon My hour what to speak:-For it servants and handmaids in is not you that speak, but the those days I will pour forth Spirit of your Father that My Spirit. speaketh in you.

The Spirit Himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God.

There are diversities of 1 C12,4 graces, but the same Spirit.

Mildness,

faith,

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The fruit of the Spirit is Ga 5, 22charity, joy, peace, patience, Let the unction which benignity, goodness, longanyou have received from Him imity, abide in you. And you have modesty, continency, chastity. no need that any man teach The Spirit of the Lord Is 11, 2-3 you, but as His unction shall rest upon Him: the teacheth you of all things, Spirit of wisdom and of unand is truth, and is no lie. derstanding, the Spirit of And as it hath taught you, counsel and of fortitude, the abide in Him. Spirit of knowledge and of

E 11, 19- I will give them one heart, godliness,-And He shall be and will put a new spirit in filled with the Spirit of the their bowels: and I will take fear of the Lord.

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PART III.

GOD AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF ALL THINGS;
AND ON HIS PRINCIPAL WORKS.

GOD, Who, from eternity, had reposed in the contem-
plation of His Infinite Perfection, decided, not from
exigence, but for the communication of His fulness, to
produce creatures in time. "Such is His Goodness,"
says Peter the Lombard, "that He wished to make
others share in that Beatitude by which He is eternally
happy, and which He saw could be communicated with-
out being diminished." "In the production of crea-
tures," says S. Thomas,† "nothing moves God save His
Goodness alone, which He wished to communicate to
other things by making them like to Himself." God's
creatures are (1) Purely spiritual; Angels. (2) Partly
spiritual, partly corporeal; men. (3) Purely corporeal.

* Sentent., lib. 2. dist. 1. + Cont. Gent., lib. 2. c. 46.

1.- GOD AS CREATOR.

In the beginning God seas and all that are therein:
created heaven and earth. and Thou givest life to all
Be light made.
these things, and the host of
heaven adoreth Thee.

God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good.

Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord
God of Hosts: all the earth
He made us, and not we is full of His glory.
ourselves.
His glory covered

Is 6,3

the

Ha 3, 3

Dt 32, 4

I am the Lord, that make heavens, and the earth is full
all things, that alone stretch of His praise.
out the heavens, that estab- The works of God are
lish the earth, and there is perfect, and all His ways are
none with Me.

judgments.

Thou Thyself, O Lord, He stretched out the north Jb 26,7 alone, Thou hast made over the empty space, and heaven, and the heaven of hanged

heavens, and all the host nothing.

the earth upon

thereof the earth and all The heavens show forth Ps 18,2-4 things that are in it: the the glory of God, and the

Ge 1,1

Ge 1, 3
Ge 1, 31

Ps 99,3

Is 44, 24

2E9,6

28

firmament declareth the work and He remaineth an In-
of His hands.-Day to day vincible King for ever.-Who
uttereth speech, and night is able to declare His works?
to night showeth knowledge.
-There are no speeches nor
languages where their voices
are not heard.

For who shall search out His glorious acts?-And who shall show forth the power of His Majesty? or who shall be able to declare His mercy? -Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is

Ps 101, 26- In the beginning, O Lord,
Thou foundest the earth: and
the heavens are the works of
Thy hands. They shall per- it possible to find out the
ish, but Thou remainest and glorious works of God.

Ps 91, 5

all of them shall grow old In the beginning was the Jn 1, 1-3 like a garment: and as a Word, and the Word was vesture Thou shalt change with God, and the Word was them, and they shall be God. The same was in the changed. - But Thou art beginning with God.-All always the self-same, and Thy things were made by Him, years shall not fail. and without Him was made Thou hast given me, O nothing that was made. Lord, a delight in Thy doings: Great and wonderful are 4p 15,3 and in The works of Thy Thy works, O Lord God hands I shall rejoice. Almighty: just and true are Ps 144, 10- Let all Thy works, O Lord, Thy ways, O King of ages. praise Thee; and let Thy He hath made all things Ecl 3, 11 saints bless Thee. They good in their time. shall speak of the glory of All things were made by Thy Kingdom, and shall tell Him, and without Him was of Thy Power. made nothing that was made.

11

Eci 17,7

Je 10, 12

13

Dt 33, 26

-

He set His eye upon their hearts to show the greatness of His works.

Jn 1,3

Lord, Thou art He that Ac 4, 24 didst make heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that

He that maketh the earth are in them.
by His power, that prepareth Of Him, and by Him, and Ro 11, 36
the world by His Wisdom, in Him are all things.

and stretcheth out the Thy hands have made me лb 10, 8-9
heavens by His knowledge.-and fashioned me wholly
At His voice He giveth a round about, and dost Thou
multitude of waters in the thus cast me down head-
heaven, and lifteth up the long on a sudden ?— Remem-
clouds from the ends of the ber, I beseech Thee, that
earth: He maketh lightnings Thou hast made me as the
for rain, and bringeth forth clay, and Thou wilt bring me
the wind out of His trea- into dust again.

sures.

I am the Lord thy God, Is 51, 15 By His magnificence the Who trouble the sea, and the clouds run hither and thither. waves thereof swell : the Eci 18, 1-5 He that liveth for ever Lord of Hosts is My Name. created all things together. I will behold Thy heavens, God only shall be justified, the works of Thy fingers: the

Ps 8,4