Chapter 24: On creation in general; from God to His efficiencies
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. On creation in general.
Thus far we have seen concerning GOD, prince and king of man and of all things, as to His essence and subsistence, by which His sufficiency is contained, as the primary object of Christian religion — both what His nature is or what sort God is, and who He is, or why this nature is to be attributed, lest something unsuitable be attributed to the highest true God, or another or alien GOD be held for that true and highest: there follow His efficiencies, as causes on account of which religion is owed to God, namely creation and the restoration of man.
The necessity of Christ and of Christian religion hangs and shines chiefly from these two causes, on account of which God rightly demands it from men — both as creator and as savior in the Son of His love, under which is also contained that He wills to be glorifier.
Latin
CAPUT VICESIMUM QUARTUM, De creatione in genere. Hucusque vidimus de DEO, hominis omniumque rerum principe ac rege, quantum ad essentiam et subsistentiam suam, qua illius sufficientia continetur, tanquam primario Christianae religionis objecto, tum quae natura ejus seu qualis sit Deus, tum quis sit, seu cur haec natura tribuenda sit, ne summo vero Deo aliquid tribuatur inconveniens, neve alius aut alienus DEUS pro vero illo ac summo habeatur: sequuntur efficientiae illius, tanquam causae, ob quas Deo religio debetur, creatio nimirum et hominis instauratio. Christi et religionis Christianae necessitas pendet et elucet potissimum ex his duabus causis, propter quas Deus jus habet eam ab hominibus postulandi, tum ut creator, tum ut salvator in Filio dilectionis suae, sub quo etiam continetur, quod velit esse glorificator.