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

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

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.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.