The Wonders of Divine Faith

...while The text begins mid-sentence from the previous page considering that it is not the multitude of words, but their power that must be weighed. Step forward boldly against any freethinker original: "libertino," referring to the skeptics or "free-thinkers" of the 17th and 18th centuries who challenged traditional religious authority, and present this conclusion to him; trust one who has tried it, and he will find no way to escape the snare. Finally, that divine faith is given, and that this is no empty phantom, is demonstrated just as clearly as His wondrous essence is shown in the first part of this work, and His marvelous operation in the second. Do you know, learned reader, what Philip, the disciple of Jesus, answered to Nathanael when he asked: Can anything good come from Nazareth? He replied: Come, and see.

Whether God has revealed anything for us to believe.

2. God has built two Temples for His divine worship: one is the Temple of heaven, so that in it His most high Majesty may be beheld by all the Angels and the Blessed through the light of glory original: "lumen gloriae," a theological term for the supernatural capacity given to the soul in heaven to see God directly, and be visibly honored; and the other is the Temple of earth, so that His Divinity original: "Deitas" may be believed, not seen, but adored invisibly. O most blessed inhabitants of heaven, you all live so fortunately that you gaze upon the stupendous perfections of the Deity face to face with ineffable joy: you rejoice marvelously in the sight of infinite Goodness; you are glad in the view of immense Beauty; you enjoy the purest pleasure in the most lucid splendor of divine Truthfulness; you taste with unending sweetness that God alone is truth itself in His essence, in His thought, and in His word. You behold with light and unexplainable joy how the intellect of the Father begets the Son, His total equal, who is the Word original: "Verbum," referring to the Second Person of the Trinity that indicates all truth. You see the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, proceeding from the will of God the Father and the Son. But what is the reason that you behold all of this so truly and vividly? Is it not this: because God reveals Himself to you through the participation of the supernatural light of glory with the highest clarity, in which you intuitively see God Himself in Himself, and all things that are in God.

3. Because God in His essence is truth itself, and in all His internal and external speech is truthfulness itself, He is most worthy of adoration and divine worship; but how do you, eternal [Deity]...