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And so it has pleased Divine Providence, as I have said, and as we
read in the Acts of the Apostles, that the law enjoining the worship
of one God should be given by the disposition of angels. But among
them the person of God Himself visibly appeared, not, indeed, in
His proper substance, which ever remains invisible to mortal eyes,
but by the infallible signs furnished by creation in obedience to its
Creator. He made use, too, of the words of human speech, uttering
them syllable by syllable successively, though in His own nature He
speaks not in a bodily but in a spiritual way; not to sense, but to
the mind; not in words that occupy time, but, if I may so say,
eternally, neither beginning to speak nor coming to an end. And what
He says is accurately heard, not by the bodily but by the mental ear
of His ministers and messengers, who are immortally blessed in the
enjoyment of His unchangeable truth; and the directions which they in
some ineffable way receive, they execute without delay or difficulty in
the sensible and visible world. And this law was given in conformity
with the age of the world, and Contained at the first earthly
promises, as I have said, which, however, symbolized eternal ones;
and these eternal blessings few understood, though many took a part in
the celebration of their visible signs. Nevertheless, with one
consent both the words and the visible rites of that law enjoin the
worship of one God, not one of a crowd of gods, but Him who made
heaven and earth, and every soul and every spirit which is other than
Himself. He created; all else was created; and, both for being and
well-being, all things need Him who created them.
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