CHAPTER XIX.
Of Meditation on the Goodness of God.
THE Goodness of God, like every one of His Infinite Perfections, is in itself incomprehensible; but so great is it in its outward manifestations, that there is no created thing in which it is not found. Creation is an effect of the Goodness of God. The preservation and government of the world is also an effect of the Goodness of God. Our Redemption is an evidence to us of the unspeakable greatness of the Goodness of God, Who for our ransom gave His Only-begotten Son, and still gives Him to us for our daily food in the Sacrament of the Altar.
CHAPTER XX.
Of Meditation on the Beauty of God.
CONCERNING the Beauty of God it should be enough for us to know that it is such and so great, that God Himself, from all eternity contemplating it without ever turning aside from it, remains in His Infinite Capacity incomprehensibly satisfied and blessed.
O man, know now the dignity to which the
