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Therefore God supreme and true, with His Word and Holy Spirit
(which three are one), one God omnipotent, creator and maker of
every soul and of every body; by whose gift all are happy who are happy
through verity and not through vanity; who made man a rational animal
consisting of soul and body, who, when he sinned, neither permitted
him to go unpunished, nor left him without mercy; who has given to the
good and to the evil, being in common with stones, vegetable life in
common with trees, sensuous life in common with brutes, intellectual
life in common with angels alone; from whom is every mode, every
species, every order; from whom are measure, number, weight; from
whom is everything which has an existence in nature, of whatever kind
it be, and of whatever value; from whom are the seeds of forms and the
forms of seeds, and the motion of seeds and of forms; Who gave also
to flesh its origin, beauty, health, reproductive fecundity,
disposition of members, and the salutary concord of its parts; who
also to the irrational soul has given memory, sense, appetite, but to
the rational soul, in addition to these, has given intelligence and
will; who has not left, not to speak of heaven and earth, angels and
men, but not even the entrails of the smallest and most contemptible
animal, or the feather of a bird, or the little flower of a plant, or
the leaf of a tree, without an harmony, and, as it were, a mutual
peace among all its parts;, that God can never be believed to have
left the kingdoms of men, their dominations and servitudes, outside of
the laws of His providence.
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