Goodness B.
1. God's goodness exists so entirely in itself that it needs
nothing apart from itself.
2. As God's goodness does good within itself, it exists in
itself and in greatness, etc.
3. As God's goodness does good outside itself it exists in
all creatures and their acts.
4. All created good is a mirror of uncreated good.
5. Goodness cannot be great without the good it does.
6. A good being never resists its own greatness.
Greatness C.
1. God's greatness cannot exist in itself or in anything else
without magnification.
2. God's greatness has greater magnification in itself than
anywhere else.
3. Greatness is as great in its goodness, eternity, power
etc. as in itself.
4. All great good is loveable.
5. No great being contradicts itself.
6. Any magnification of a great being contradicts some lesser
being.
Eternity D.
1. Eternizing is the act of eternity.
2. All duration is a likeness of eternity.
3. In eternity immense magnifying and eternizing proceed with
one equally immense velocity.
4. Eternity cannot exist on account of anything other than
itself.
5. There is greater concordance between eternity and eternizing
than between the creator and the act of creation.
6. There cannot be any increase in eternity.
Power E.
1. God can legitimately do anything not unbecoming to God.
2. Whatever contradicts or defies empowerment, contradicts
and defies power.
3. Every dignity produces its likeness in divine power.
4. Since power and will are identical in God, God can do all
of whatever He wants.
5. Without intrinsic empowerment in God's power, creation
is impossible.
6. All power derives from God's power.
Wisdom F.
1. In God's wisdom, being and knowing are equal.
2. All acts of the divine dignities equally exist in divine
wisdom.
3. God's wisdom is infused in itself and other beings.
4. God's science exists universally in all particulars.
5. Since there is science in God, all ignorance is hateful.
6. All science is influenced by God's science.
Will G.
1. Sice in God's essence there is no difference between willing
and not willing , no power of will can be great without both willing and
not willing.
2. God's will does not want God's power to produce whatever
it could produce outwardly.
3. Willingness and unwillingness in God both exist in one
immense velocity of magnitude and eternity.
4. Since God has all of whatever He wants, He has nothing
that He does not want.
5. Will that intrinsically desires its own likeness is greater
than will that does not desire its likeness.
6. Divine will intrinsically wants whatever can make a creature
be God.
Virtue H.
1. God's virtue is equal to God's substance.
2. Divine virtue cannot be idle.
3. Divine virtue is always joined to divine purpose.
4. A virtue always influences itself more strongly than anything
other than itself.
5. No virtue can act without specification.
6. No virtue opposes the greatness of its own act.
Truth I.
1. God can verify more truth within himself, than anywhere
else.
2. Through verification, truth produces its likeness and opposes
falsehood.
3. Great truth consists in great verification.
4. Every truth is greater in reality than in the created intellect.
5. Because truth can be understood, it is an object of the
intellect.
6. Without the light of truth, truth could not be an object
of the intellect.
Glory K.
1. No Glory is supreme unless it exists in itself.
2. God's extrinsic glory is greater than the intrinsic glory
of creatures.
3. God's glory is incessantly free of any imperfection.
4. Intrinsic glory is greater than extrinsic glory.
5. No glory can be understood and loved without specification.
6. Because glory in God is one with Justice, God's glory is
more desirable in equality than in majority.
Perfection L.
1. Perfection existing per se within itself, is one without
a second.
2. Since perfecting is the act of perfection, all perfecting
is desirable.
3. Perfecting cannot be absent from the perfection of immensity
and eternity.
4. If God is nothing, perfection cannot exist without imperfection.
5. Without the divine intrinsic act of perfecting, anything
perfect would have been imperfect before being perfect.
6. God's intrinsic perfection exists in itself and perfects
in itself the necessary influence of perfection that it gives out.
Justice M.
1. Justice is never repugnant to the magnitude of goodness, eternity,
power etc.
2. Divine justice is the one and only justice that can exist by
itself, in itself and for itself.
3. The act of God's justice is so great that it justifies all the
intrinsic and extrinsic acts of the other dignities.
4. Justice without its own intrinsic justifying act could be mixed
with injury.
5. Whatever contradicts or opposes the magnitude of the justifying
act, contradicts and opposes the magnitude of justice.
6. With its intrinsic justification, justice opposes injury within
itself and outside itself.
Generosity N.
1. Without generous action, generosity is worth nothing.
2. God's generosity gives generously within God through being and
outside God through influence.
3. On account of God's great intrinsic generosity, greater gifts
are more desirable than lesser ones.
4. There is no generosity greater than the one which gives all of
its gift from all of itself.
5. Generosity always contradicts avarice more greatly with greatness
than with smallness.
6. Divine generosity gives more to man by giving him being, than
by giving him prosperity.
Simplicity O.
1. Without simplification, nothing can be united into any kind of
unity.
2. Union without simplification would have to proceed without composition.
3. Since there is simplicity without composition in God, simplicity
is always greater on account of unity than through composition.
4. If some simplicity did not simplify anything, it would be less
than any simplicity that did simplify something.
5. There is no simplicity greater than the one which exists in unity
and plurality without any composition.
6. All simplicity is removed from composition by form.
Nobility P.
1. If nobility can act more nobly within itself than anywhere else,
it can also act more greatly within itself than anywhere else.
2. There is as much nobility in God as can be empowered by God's
intrinsic power.
3. If great nobility could not ennoble anything, then great vileness
could not defile
anything.
4. On account of God's eternal intrinsic nobility, lasting nobility
is always sought and desired.
6. As nobility belongs to being, greater nobility is always more
sought after than lesser nobility.
Mercy Q.
1. The distinction between mercy and justice is merely a rational
one.
2. Hope was equally created for mercy and justice.
3. Given the identical unity of God's mercy and justice, both must
be equally feared.
4. God's intrinsic mercy is greater than man's nothingness.
5. Mercy is never opposed to great hope.
6. Greater forgiveness provides greater understanding of mercy.
Dominion R.
1. Because God is our Lord, all dominion is desirable.
2. Dominion never opposes its own greatness.
3. Dominion that dominates nothing is worth nothing.
4. Because God is the supreme sovereign, dominion takes natural
precedence over servitude.
5. Domination is a majority in which some minority is sustained.
6. In view of divine justice, dominion always agrees better with
greater than with lesser justice.
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