Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
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Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
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In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
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