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Ja 1, 13

Ha 1, 13

Ps 144, 3

Ps 34, 10

Ba 3, 36

Ap 15, 4

1 K2,2

2 M 1,24

they that fear Him shall not lookest Thou upon them that
love it.
do unjust things, and holdest
Let no man, when he is Thy peace when the wicked
tempted, say that he is devoureth the man that is
tempted by God. For God more just than himself?
is not a tempter of evils, and
He tempteth no man.

Who can search out His Jb 36 ways? or who can say to

Thy eyes are too pure to Him: Thou hast wrought inbehold evil, and Thou canst iquity?

not look on iniquity. Why One is good, God.

7. HIS PERFECTION, WHICH CONTAINS IN AN

EMINENT DEGREE THE PERFECTIONS OF ALL
CREATED THINGS.

Great is the Lord, and from all evil, Who didst
greatly to be praised.
choose the fathers, and didst
sanctify them.

All my bones shall say:
Lord, who is like to Thee?"

This is our God, and there
shall no other be accounted
of in comparison of Him.

Mt 19

Who is the blessed and only 1 Ti6, mighty, Who only hath immortality.

I will show thee all good. Ex 33, Who shall not fear Thee, He that planted the ear, Eci 24, O Lord, and magnify Thy shall He not hear? or He Name? For Thou only art that formed the eye, doth He holy for all nations shall not consider?-In Me is all come, and shall adore in Thy grace of the way and of the sight, because Thy judgments truth, in Me is all hope of are manifest. life and of virtue.

:

Shall not I, that make others to bring forth children, Myself bring forth? saith

There is none holy as the
Lord is for there is no other
beside Thee, and there is
none strong like our God. the Lord. Shall I, that give
O Lord God, Creator of all generation to others, be bar-
things, dreadful and strong, ren? saith the Lord thy God.
just and merciful, Who alone In Him was life.
art the good King, Who Be ye therefore perfect, as
alone art gracious, Who alone your Heavenly Father is per-
art just, and almighty, and fect.
eternal, Who deliverest Israel

Is 66,

Jn 1,

Mt 5,4

Ba 3,25

Ps 144, 3

Jb 36,22

8. HIS INFINITY.

Behold, God is high in His

Behold, the Gentiles are Is 40, 1

strength, and none is like as a drop of a bucket, and
Him among the lawgivers.

Of His greatness there is no end.

are counted as the smallest
grain of a balance: behold,
the islands are as a little

It is great, and hath no dust.—And Libanus shall not end; it is high and immense. be enough to burn, nor the

W11, 23

Am 9, 1-4

Je 23, 23

Ps 138, 7

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beasts thereof sufficient for Thee is as the least grain of
a burnt-offering.-All nations the balance, and as a drop of
are before Him as if they the morning dew, that falleth
had no being at all, and are down upon the earth.

counted to Him as nothing| I shall be satisfied when Ps 16, 15
and vanity.
Thy glory shall appear.

The whole world before

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There shall be no flight lead me, and Thy right hand for them, and he that shall shall hold me. And I said: flee of them shall not be de- Perhaps darkness shall cover livered. Though they go me: and night shall be my down even to hell, thence light in my pleasures.-But shall My hand bring them darkness shall not be dark to out: and though they climb Thee, and night shall be light up to heaven, thence will I as the day: the darkness bring them down. And thereof, and the light therethough they be hid in the of, are alike to Thee.-For top of Carmel, I will search Thou hast possessed my reins: and take them away from Thou hast protected me from thence: and though they hide my mother's womb. themselves from My eyes in Heaven is My throne, and the depth of the sea, there the earth My footstool: what will I command the serpent, is this house that you will and he shall bite them ;-And build to Me? and what is if they go into captivity be- this place of My rest? fore their enemies, there will He is not far from every Ac 17, 28 I command the sword, and it one of us; for in Him we live

shall kill them. And I will
set my eyes upon them for
evil, and not for good.

and move and be.

Is 66, 1

W1,7

Is 6, 3

The Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world; and Am I, think ye, a God at that which containeth all hand, saith the Lord, and not things hath knowledge of a God afar off ?-Shall a man the voice. be hid in secret places, and I All the earth is full of His not see him? saith the Lord. glory. Do not I fill heaven and Peradventure thou wilt Jb 11,7 earth? saith the Lord. comprehend the steps of Whither shall I go from God, and will find out the Thy Spirit? or whither shall Almighty perfectly?- He is I flee from Thy Face?-If I higher than heaven, and what ascend into heaven, Thou art wilt thou do? He is deeper there: if I descend into hell, than hell, and how wilt thou Thou art present.-If I take know?-The measure of Him my wings early in the morn- is longer than the earth, and ing, and dwell in the utter- broader than the sea.

most parts of the sea :-Even Dost not thou think that J622, 12 there also shall Thy hand God is higher than heaven?

3K 8, 27

and is elevated above the
height of the stars?

Walk before Me, and be Ge 1 perfect.

If heaven and the heavens I set the Lord always in of heavens cannot contain my sight: for He is at my Thee, how much less this right hand, that I be not house which I have built? moved.

Ps 1

10. HIS IMMUTABILITY.

Jn 3,

Ps 101, 26 In the beginning, O Lord, mandments, unto a thousand Thou foundedst the earth; generations. and the heavens are the He that hath received His works of Thy hands:-They testimony hath set to his seal shall perish, but Thou re- that God is true. For He mainest; and all of them Whom God hath sent speakshall grow old like a gar- eth the words of God. ment: and as a vesture Thou The triumpher in Israel 1 K15, : shalt change them, and they will not spare, and will not shall be changed.-But Thou be moved to repentance: for art always the self-same, He is not a man that He and Thy years shall not should repent. fail.

Je 1, 11

Mt 24, 35

He 6, 17

Dt 7,9

God is true, and every Ro 3,

What seest thou, Jeremias? man a liar.
And I said: I see a rod watch-1

If we deny Him, He will 2 Ti2, 1

ing. And the Lord said to also deny us: if we believe
me: Thou hast seen well; for not, He continueth faithful:
I will watch over My Word He cannot deny Himself.
to perform it.
He is faithful, Who hath 175, 2
Heaven and earth shall called you, Who will also do
pass, but My words shall not it.
pass.

God is faithful, Who will 2T3,

Wherein God, meaning strengthen and keep you
more abundantly to show to from evil.

the heirs of the promise the Every best gift, and every Ja 1,17
immutability of His counsel, perfect gift, is from above,
interposed an oath:-That coming down from the Father
by two immutable things, in of lights, with Whom there
which it is impossible for is no change, nor shadow of
God to lie, we may have the alteration.
strongest comfort, who have God is not as a man that Nu 23, 19
fled for refuge to hold fast He should lie, nor as the son
the hope set before us. of man that He should be

Thou shalt know that the changed. Hath He said then,
Lord thy God, He is a strong and will He not do? hath He
and faithful God, keeping spoken, and will He not
His covenant and mercy to fulfil?

them that love Him, and to! I am the Lord, and I change Ma 3,6
hem that keep His com-'not.

's 40, 28

Ps 89,2

11. HIS ETERNITY.

Jb 36,26

Is 57, 15

Knowest thou not, or hast| The Lord shall reign for Ex 15, 11 thou not heard? The Lord ever and for ever. is the Everlasting God, Who The number of His years hath created the ends of the is inestimable. earth: He shall not faint nor Thus saith the High and labour, neither is there any the Eminent that inhabiteth searching out of His wisdom. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity Thou art God.

Ps 101, 25 Thy years are unto generation and generation.

W9, 13

W9, 16

Jb 36, 23

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16 11, 7

Eci 42, 23

12.

eternity.

The mercy of the Lord is Ps 102, 17 from. eternity.

His power is an everlasting

power.

Da 7, 14

I was set up from eternity. Pv 8, 23
Thy Word, O Lord, is for P118,142

ever.

HIS INCOMPREHENSIBILITY.

Who among men is he who | His works! and what we can can know the counsel of God? know is but as a spark.

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or who can think what the Who first hath perfect Eci 24, 38-
will of God is ?
knowledge of her, and a
And hardly do we guess weaker shall not search her
aright at things that are upon out.-For her thoughts are
the earth and with labour more vast than the sea, and
do we find the things that are her counsels more deep than
before us. But the things the great ocean.

that are in heaven, who shall As thou knowest not what Ecl 11, 5
search out?-And who shall is the way of the spirit, nor
know Thy thought, except how the bones are joined to-
Thou give wisdom, and send gether in the womb of her
Thy Holy Spirit from above? who is with child; so thou

Who can search out His knowest not the works of ways? or who can say to God, Who is the Maker of all. Him: Thou hast wrought Lo, these things are said in Jb 26, 14 iniquity? Remember that part of His ways: and seeing thou knowest not His work, we have heard scarce a little concerning which men have drop of His word, who shall sung. All men see Him, be able to behold the thunevery one beholdeth afar off. der of His greatness?

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- Behold, God is great, ex- Who hath numbered the Eci 1,2-9
ceeding our knowledge; the sand of the sea, and the drops
number of His years is in- of rain, and the days of the
estimable.
world? Who hath measured
Peradventure thou wilt the height of heaven, and the
comprehend the steps of breadth of the earth, and the
God, and wilt find out the depth of the abyss ?-Who
Almighty perfectly?
hath searched out the wis-
O, how desirable are all dom of God that goeth before

Ro 11, 33

Je 32, 19

W17,1

Eci 18, 2

Ro 1, 19

all things?-To whom hath comprehensible in thought:
the discipline of Wisdom been Whose eyes are open upon
revealed and made manifest? all the ways of the children
and who hath understood the of Adam, to render unto
multiplicity of her steps?- every one according to his
There is One most high Cre- ways, and according to the
ator, almighty, and a power- fruit of his devices.

ful King, and greatly to be Who only hath immor- 1 Ti 6,
feared, Who sitteth upon His tality, and inhabiteth light
Throne, and is the God of inaccessible, Whom no man
dominion. He created her in hath seen, nor can see, to
the Holy Ghost, and saw her, Whom be honour and em-
and numbered her, and mea-pire everlasting. Amen.
sured her.
We know in part, and we 1 C13

O the depth of the riches prophesy in part. But when
of the wisdom and of the that which is perfect is come,
knowledge of God! How in- that which is in part shall be
comprehensible are His judg- done away.-When I was a
ments, and how unsearchable child, I spoke as a child, I
His ways!-For who hath understood as a child, I
known the mind of the Lord? thought as a child. But
or who hath been His coun- when I became a man, I put
sellor ?
away the things of a child.

Great in counsel, and in

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Thy judgments, O Lord, God:-When a man hath are great, and Thy words done, then he shall begin; cannot be expressed: there- and when he leaveth off, he fore undisciplined souls have shall be at a loss.

erred.

Cold cometh out of the Jb 37, 22

Who is able to declare His north, and to God praise with
works?-For who shall search fear. We cannot find Him
out His glorious acts?-And worthily: He is great in
who shall show forth the strength, and in judgment,
power of His Majesty? or and in justice, and He is in-
who shall be able to declare effable.-Therefore men shall
His mercy?-Nothing may fear Him, and all that seem
be taken away, nor added, to themselves to be wise shall
neither is it possible to find not dare to behold Him.
out the glorious works of

14. GOD KNOWN BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE.

That which is known of seen, being understood by the God is manifest in them. For things that are made: His God hath manifested it unto Eternal Power also and Dithem. For the invisible vinity: so that they are inthings of Him, from the crea- excusable.

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tion of the world, are clearly By these good things that W13, 1

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