XVII-XX: form and final cause; inequality of things
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XXVII.The form of creation is the divine command itself or fiat — Psalm 33:9.From which God is called FOUNTAIN.XVIII.The final cause of creation is Gods glory, and the good of creatures subordinated to Gods glory — Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11.
XX.Inequality of things is not from matter but from Gods most wise ordination, that there may be order and harmony in the universe.
XXII.And these things concerning creation commonly: there will follow creatures, which are regarded either jointly or discretely.Regarded jointly they come under the name WORLD: discretely they are called the works of the beginning, of the first night, and of the six days.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE, On the world, follows.
Latin
XXVII. Forma creationis est ipse divinus jussus seu fiat — Psal. XXXIII.9; II Pet.? Ex quo Deus FONS appellatur. XVIII. Finalis causa creationis est gloria Dei, et bonum creaturarum subordinatum gloriae Dei — Prov. XVI.4; Rom. XI.36; Apoc. IV.11. XX. Rerum inaequalitas non est a materia, sed a Dei sapientissima ordinatione, ut sit ordo et harmonia in universo. XXII. Atque haec de creatione communiter: sequentur creaturae, quae spectantur vel conjunctim, vel discretim. Conjunctim spectatae MUNDI nomine veniunt: discretim appellantur opera tum principii, tum primae noctis, tum sex dierum. CAPUT VICESIMUM QUINTUM, De mundo, sequitur.