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4. What, then, art Thou, O my God what, I ask, but the
Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our
God Most high, most excellent, most potent, most omnipotent; most
piteous and most just; most hidden and most near; most beauteous and
most strong, stable, yet contained of none; unchangeable, yet
changing all things; never new, never old; making all things new,
yet bringing old age upon the proud and they know it not; always
working, yet ever at rest; gathering, yet needing nothing;
sustaining, pervading, and protecting; creating, nourishing, and
developing; seeking, and yet possessing all things. Thou lovest,
and burnest not; art jealous, yet free from care; repentest, and
hast no sorrow; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy ways, leaving
unchanged Thy plans; recoverest what Thou findest, having yet never
lost; art never in want, whilst Thou rejoicest in gain; never
covetous, though requiring usury? That Thou mayest owe, more than
enough is given to Thee;s yet who hath anything that is not Thine?
Thou payest debts while owing nothing; and when Thou forgivest
debts, losest nothing. Yet, O my God, my life, my holy joy,
what is this that I have said? And what saith any man when He speaks
of Thee? Yet woe to them that keep silence, seeing that even they
who say most are as the dumb?
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