Chapter 18: On God's attributes of the third genus
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.On Gods attributes of the third genus.
These things also concerning the attributes of the second genus, which belong to God as living with respect to intelligent life: there follow the attributes of the third genus, which are attributed to Him with respect to His integrity, and affirmatively note His highest perfection by which He lives integrally.
These attributes of the third genus contain the eminence of divine ethics, just as the attributes of the first genus declare the eminence of divine metaphysics, and those of the second genus the eminence of divine physics: and they commonly stand under the name of moral integrity or perfection, rectitude, justice, and holiness — Deuteronomy 32:3-4; Matthew 5:48; Leviticus 11:44; 1 Peter 1:15.
Latin
CAPUT DECIMUM OCTAVUM, De attributis Dei tertii generis. Haec quoque de attributis secundi generis, quae Deo, ut viventi, respectu vitae intelligentis, conveniunt: sequuntur attributa tertii generis, quae illi tribuuntur respectu integritatis suae, affirmative notant summam perfectionem ejus, qua vivit integre. Haec attributa tertii generis continent eminentiam divinae ethicae, perinde ut attributa primi generis eminentiam divinae metaphysicae, et attributa secundi generis eminentiam divinae physicae declarant: et communiter exstant sub moralis integritatis seu perfectionis, rectitudinis, justitiae et sanctimoniae appellatione — Deut. XXXII.3-4; Matth. V.48; Lev. XI.44; I Pet. I.15.