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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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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

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Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

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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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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 attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

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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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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

Died: November 14th, 1633

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