God
as He was before He had created anything. God is infinite in his substance and
attributes, eternal, exalted above all things. There are three Persons, but one
true God. This is the Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. These
three Persons did not mingled together in order to form one true God, and this one
true God did not separate or divide in order to form three Persons, being three
distinct persons, but one indivisible God. This is where the mystery lies most.
No one can be called first or last, greater or smaller: all three Persons are
equal in everything. God is so perfect that He is very beautiful without a blemish, great
without quantity, good without need of qualification, eternal without the
duration of time, strong without any weakness, living without touch of decay,
true without deceit, present in all places, filling them without occupying
them, existing in all things without occupying any space. He is a very kind
God, his wisdom is most perfect. His works are most holy. To Him no space is
too wide, nor too narrow. His will does not vary, the sorrowful does not cause
Him Pain, the past has not passed for Him, He knows the future more than
anything. His sanctity the most perfect, His goodness cannot be measured. He is the only
but one true God. Nothing is impossible for Him. His love is infinite. At the
same time He is a just God.
God
recognized his infinite attributes and perfections together with the propensity
and the ineffable inclination to communicate Himself outwardly. The Majesty of
God, beholding the nature of his infinite perfections, their virtue and
efficacy operating with magnificence, saw that it was just and most proper,
and, as it were, a duty and a necessity, to communicate Himself and to follow
that inclination of imparting and exercising his liberality and mercy, by
distributing outside of Himself with magnificence the plenitude of the infinite
treasures, contained in the Divinity. For, being infinite in all things, it is
much more natural that He communicates gifts and graces, than that fire should
ascend, or the stone should gravitate toward its centre, or that the sun should
diffuse its light. Seeing this He found Himself, as it were, obliged, in
Himself, to communicate Himself, perceiving that it was holy, just, merciful,
and god-like to do so; hence nothing could impede Him. He wants to make
creatures partakers of his divinity and perfections.
