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1 2 | have been made by the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ,
2 2 | according to the goodness of God, have been fulfilled through
3 3 | foreshadowed in the Old Testament, God Himself came down from the
4 3 | unto men: "No man bath seen God at any time; the only begotten
5 3 | that we should adore one God in Trinity and Trinity in
6 3 | special festival in honour of God the Father. For, although
7 3 | angels, to the Mother of God, and to Christ Himself,
8 3 | as to one and the same God. St. Augustine commenting
9 3 | the Word, the Image of God is also the exemplar cause,
10 3 | the Reconciles of man with God. "By Him are all things":
11 4 | the external operations of God, the highest of all is the
12 4 | from the infinite love of God towards man, as St. John
13 4 | as St. John tells us: "God so loved the world as to
14 4 | indicates to us the grace of God, by which humanity, with
15 4 | united with the Word of God, by so intimate a personal
16 4 | Man, was also the Son of God, and He who was the Son
17 4 | and He who was the Son of God was also the Son of Man" (
18 4 | Himself without spot to God" (Heb. ix., 14). Considering
19 6 | bishops to rule the Church of God, which He bath purchased
20 7 | numbered among the children of God, they were in a state like
21 8 | necessity the servant of God: "The creature is a servant;
22 8 | we are the servants of God by nature" (St. Cyr. Alex.,
23 8 | we had become enemies to God. "We were by nature the
24 8 | eternal destruction. But God, the Creator of mankind
25 8 | Divine Nature, children of God, god-like, and similar epithets.
26 8 | that we are the sons of God" (Rom. viii., 15-16). This
27 8 | be by nature the Son of God," and "others are sanctified
28 8 | sanctified to be the sons of God by adoption" (St. Th. 3a,
29 9 | Himself: "the charity of God is poured out into our hearts
30 9 | be and is called "Gift of God most High." To show the
31 9 | Scripture. They say that God is present and exists in
32 9 | Ia, q. viii., a. 3). But God is in man, not only as in
33 9 | after the good. Moreover, God by grace resides in the
34 9 | adheres most closely to God, more so than the friend
35 9 | beloved friend, and enjoys God in all fulness and sweetness.
36 9 | state from that with which God beatifies the saints in
37 9 | consists in the love of God. Wherefore the apostle when
38 9 | calling us to the temple of God, does not expressly mention
39 9 | you, whom you have from God?" (1 Cor. vi. 19). The fullness
40 10| place, love, because He is God: "Thou shalt love the Lord
41 10| shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and
42 10| Ghost, Who is the Love of God, that He searcheth even
43 10| even the profound things of God" (1 Cor. ii., 10; Summ.
44 10| some excuse before Almighty God; but he who resists the
45 10| by the just judgment of God, should take falsehood for
46 10| as a teacher of truth: "God shall send them the operation
47 10| Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed" (
48 10| that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
49 10| and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? But if
50 10| man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy.
51 10| temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple
52 10| destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are" (
53 11| Ghost as by the Gift of God" (Summ. Th. 3a, q. iii.,
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