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II.

God. Deus.

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_God_ is of himself from everlasting to everlasting. _Deus_ est ex seipso, ab æterno in æternum.

A most perfect and a most blessed _Being_. Perfectissimum & beatissimum _Ens_.

In his _Essence_ Spiritual, and One. _Essentiâ_ Spiritualis & unus.

In his _Personality_, Three. _Hypostasi_ Trinus.

In his _Will_, Holy, Just, Merciful and True. _Voluntate_, Sanctus, Justus, Clemens, Verax.

In his _Power_ very great. _Potentiâ_ maximus.

In his _Goodness_, very good. _Bonitate_ Optimus.

In his _Wisdom_, unmeasurable. _Sapientiâ_, immensus.

A _Light_ inaccessible; and yet all in all. _Lux_ inaccessa; & tamen omnia in omnibus.

Every where, and no where. Ubique & nullibi.

The chiefest _Good_, and the only and inexhausted Fountain of all good things. Summum _Bonum_, et solus et inexhaustus Fons omnium Bonorum.

As the _Creator_, so the _Governour_ and _Preserver_ of all things, which we call the _World_. Ut _Creator_, ita _Gubernator_ et _Conservator_ omnium rerum, quas vocamus _Mundum_.