The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
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