In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

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.

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.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.