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has made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the Saints in light, let us not neglect so great a salvation, but with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. [Chap. 3.] 26 ROMAN CATHOLICISM FAITH AND REASON Moreover, the perpetual consent of the Catholic Church has held, and holds, that there is a twofold order of knowledge, distinct not only in principle but also in object ; in principle, because in the one our knowledge is by natural reason, and in the other by divine faith ; in object, because, besides those things to which natural reason can attain, there are proposed for our belief mysteries hidden in God, which, unless divinely revealed, cannot be known. Whence the Apostle, who bears witness that God is known through his creation by the Gentiles, when writing of the grace and truth which come by Jesus Christ, says : We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world unto our glory ; which none of the princes of this world knew ; . . . but to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. And the only-begotten Son himself gives thanks to the Father, because he has hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them to

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