IV-VII: conditions of power — universality, immensity, perfection in work
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IV.Its condition is threefold: universality, immensity, perfection in the work.V.Universality is that by which God can do all things which He can will.VI.Immensity is that by which God's power reaches and surrounds all things.VII.Perfection in the work is that by which God does most excellently whatever He does.Hence Moses in Genesis 1:31: Then God looked upon all things which He had made, and behold, they were very good.
Finally, to this power of God what is already done is not subject under the reason of the done, but under the reason of being done.And therefore by the same power by which He could create the world, it is not as already made, but as to-be-made, which is in the power of the maker and not already made in act.
Latin
IV. Conditio ejus est triplex: universalitas, immensitas, perfectio in opere. V. Universalitas est, qua Deus omnia potest quae velle potest. VI. Immensitas est, qua Deus potentia sua omnia penetrat et ambit. VII. Perfectio in opere est, qua Deus optime facit quicquid facit. Hinc Moses Gen. I.31: Tum inspexisse Deum omnia quae fecerat, et ecce bona valde. Ad extremum huic potentiae Dei non subjicitur factum sub ratione facti, sed sub ratione fiendi. Et ideo eadem potentia qua potuit creare mundum, non factum, sed faciendum, quod in potentia facientis est et non in actu factus.