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, God Himself will come Peter said: Thou art Mt 16, 16 opened, and the ears of the In the beginning was the Jn 1, 1-3 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 This is our God, and there wards He was seen upon Of whom is Christ accord- 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 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- 4. THE HOLY GHOST, TRUE GOD, CONSUBSTANTIAL 20 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 5.—THE HOLY GHOST, PROCEeding from the When the Paraclete com-ceedeth from the Father, He In 20, 22 Ro 8, 9 Jn 5, 19 Ga 4, 4 1 C 3, 16 Jn 7, 16 Mt 10, 19 20 Ro 8, 16 1 J2, 27 glorify Me; because He shall but in the spirit, if so be Receive ye the Holy Ghost. All things whatsoever the Jn 16, 15 6. THE EQUALITY, MISSION, AND WORK OF THE What things soever the away the stony heart out of 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, 23 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. 20 PART III. GOD AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF ALL THINGS; GOD, Who, from eternity, had reposed in the contem- * 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: God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good. Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord Is 6,3 the Ha 3, 3 Dt 32, 4 I am the Lord, that make heavens, and the earth is full 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 Ps 99,3 Is 44, 24 2E9,6 28 firmament declareth the work and He remaineth an In- 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, 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. and stretcheth out the Thy hands have made me лb 10, 8-9 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 |