The Wonders of Divine Faith

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[...as long as you—as I believe, we] will come to him, and make our dwelling with him original: "eum veniemus, & mansionem apud eum faciemus"; quoting John 14:23—and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate original: "Paraclitum"; referring to the Holy Spirit as a helper or comforter, that he may stay with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you will know him, because he will remain with you, and will be in you. On that day (on which you shall live by Faith) you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Do you notice, Kind Reader, that these immense promises of your GOD are gifts intended for you!

(d) Hebrews 10:38.

In the sacred Book of GOD you read it repeated quite often: (d) The just man, that is, he who possesses the right of a reborn and adopted son of GOD, lives by faith. The supernatural truths of faith are the colors with which Jesus Christ shapes us humans into true Christians and genuine sons of GOD, so that he himself may be the Firstborn among many brothers; and God the Father and the Son have sent the Holy Spirit, whom we have received, so that through him, filled with faith and trust like sons, we may cry out to God: (e) Romans 8:15. Abba, Father! (e)

Among men, one is called "Father" who gives his own nature to his son: in the same way, our GOD himself becomes our Father when, through grace Gratiæ; the free and unmerited favor of God, which the author describes as a "miracle", He makes us sharers in His Divine nature. Through this, He establishes Himself as our Father and us as His sons by every right. This is such a great miracle of grace that it carries away all the Angels and the Blessed into ecstasy, yet only a very few men into wonder. O blind fate of mortals! who, not observing the loftiness of their own dignity, become little different from the brute beasts themselves, who lack all reason and faith.

Many are called to the Divine Faith, who rejoice beyond measure in the glorious title of "The Faithful," while in the meantime few of them know how one must believe with Divine faith. The title which these present pages [display] on their fron- The word is cut off by the page break; likely "frontispiece" or "front."

(d) Hebrews 10:38.            (e) Romans 8:15.