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4.God acts in time not by being subject to time, but by subjecting a finite thing to time.5.In God there is prior and posterior not by reason of essence or time, but by reason of order among the persons of the Holy Trinity and among His attributes, by reason of our intellect.God's inward works are an act always lasting; but outward works are finished according to God's free will.
6.All things are present to God not by reason of existence, but of knowledge.7.Eternal years and days of eternity are not said of God because of a division of eternity in itself, but because of the division of perpetuity and time, which He contains under Himself excellently.8.We ought to imitate God's eternity by constant activity of the good, by unceasing desire of blessed eternity.For that reason I seal the chapter on God's eternity with this monition: THINK ON ETERNITY.
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4. Deus in tempore agit, non subjacendo tempori, sed rem finitam subiciendo tempori. 5. In Deo est prius et posterius, non ratione essentiae aut temporis, sed ratione ordinis inter personas S.S. Trinitatis et inter attributa ejus, ratione nostri intellectus. Opera Dei ad intra sunt actus semper durans; at opera ad extra finiuntur pro libera Dei voluntate. 6. Omnia sunt Deo praesentia, non ratione existentiae, sed notitiae. 7. Anni aeterni et dies aeternitatis de Deo non dicuntur propter divisionem aeternitatis in se, sed propter divisionem perpetuitatis et temporis, quae continet sub se excellenter. 8. Aeternitatem Dei debemus imitari constanti activitate boni, indefinenti appetitione beatae aeternitatis. Hac propter caput de aeternitate Dei hac monela obsigno: AETERNITATEM COGITA.