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6. Let us, then, now seek the Trinity which is God, in the
things themselves that are eternal, incorporeal, and unchangeable; in
the perfect contemplation of which a blessed life is promised us, which
cannot be other, than eternal. For not only does the authority of the
divine books declare that God is; but the whole nature of the universe
itself which surrounds us, and to which we also belong, proclaims that
it has a most excellent Creator, who has given to us a mind and
natural reason, whereby to see that things living are to be preferred
to things that are not living; things that have sense to things that
have not; things that have understanding to things that have not;
things immortal to things mortal; things powerful to things impotent;
things righteous to things unrighteous; things beautiful to things
deformed: things good to things evil; things incorruptible to things
corruptible; things changeable to things changeable; things invisible
to things visible; things incorporeal to things corporeal; things
blessed to things miserable. And hence, since without doubt we place
the Creator above things created, we must needs confess that the
Creator both lives in the highest sense, and perceives and understands
all things. and that He cannot die, or suffer decay, or be changed;
and that He is not a body, but a spirit, of all the most powerful,
most righteous, most beautiful, most good, most blessed.
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