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CHAPTER X. 483and charity. They are, as it were, divided in Godby his personal properties, re-united inincarnation, and communicated to the church.Christ by theTheSon alone, from all eternity, receives the authorityof the Tather by a generation, the principle whereofis the truth subsisting, and productive of the consubstantiallove of the Father and the Son, which is theHoly Ghost. Ail things are delivered to Christ byhis incarnation and temporal mission; for God wasin Christ reconciling the world to himself, and communicatedhimself, and wrought by Jesus Christ,according to these three properties,which the Christianreligion represents, adores, and imitates.thing therefore ought to pay homage thereto.hierarchical action inEveryEverythe pastors, ought to be an actof authority, truth, and charity. Every Christianaction in the faithful, an act of homage and obedienceto the authority, truth, and love of God, andsuch as has nothing in it contrary to them. Everything is performed in the church in the way of paternaland pastoral authority; in the way of knowledgerevealed, of truth taught, and of the wordpreached by a particular mission ;and in the way oflove inspired, of grace freely dispensed, and of ministries,distributed according to the will and call of thedivine Spirit, and received with submission, adoration,and gratitude, towards the adorable Trinity,and the personal properties thereof." 23. f And he turned him unto his disciples,and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which seethe things that ye see :"Blessed is that person, who, with Christian eyes,with the eyes of faith,sees that which the Jews sawx2