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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.

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

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.

This Subsistence, Or Manner Of Being Of God Is His One Essence So Far As It Has Personal Properties.

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.