Participation In The Blessings Of

Hearing The Word Is The Devout Receiving Of The Will Of God.

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.

Everyone Who Understands The Nature Of God Rightly Necessarily Knows That God Is To Be Believed And Hoped In, That He Is To Be Loved And Called Upon, And To Be Heard In All Things.

The Relative Property Of The Son Is To Be Begotten, That Is, So To Proceed From The Father As To Be A Participant Of The Same Essence And Perfectly Carry On The Father's Nature.

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.