V. General canons 1–6 on the divine attributes
V. But here general CANONS are to be observed. 1. The attributes of God, or His essential properties, are many in one manner, because we cannot comprehend the whole infinite perfection of the divine essence in one concept, but only apprehend it to some extent.
2. In the attributes of God there is not prior and posterior except as regards us. For since all are one with the essence, in themselves they do not admit prior and posterior. 3. The attributes of God do not admit more and less in themselves. But their effects can admit intensification and remission. 4. The attributes of God are not contrary to one another. But their effects can be contrary, as the sun by one and the same virtue hardens mud and melts wax.
5. The attributes of GOD viewed in themselves are altogether incommunicable. For they are God's very essence itself. Yet they are not wrongly distinguished into communicable and incommunicable, because some impress their image on creatures, as wisdom and goodness, some scarcely a vestige or thinnest shadow. 6. The attributes of God are not multiplied in the persons of the Holy Trinity. For just as there is one essence of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so also there is one eternity, omnipotence, etc. Therefore although the Father is omnipotent, and the Son omnipotent, and the Holy Spirit omnipotent: yet there are not three omnipotent ones, but those three are one omnipotent GOD.
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V. Sunt autem hic observandi generales CANONES. 1. Attributa Dei, sive proprietates ipsius essentiales, uno modo, quia infinitam essentiae divinae perfectionem uno conceptu totam comprehendere nequimus, sed aliquatenus duntaxat apprehendimus. 2. In attributis Dei non est prius & posterius nisi quantum ad nos. Quia enim omnia cum essentia unum sunt, in seipsis prius & posterius non admittunt. 3. Attributa Dei non recipiunt magis & minus in seipsis. At effecta eorum possunt admittere intensionem ac remissionem. 4. Attributa Dei non sunt sibi invicem contraria. At effecta eorum possunt esse contraria, ut sol una eademque virtute sua indurat lutum & liquefacit ceram. 5. Attributa DEI in se spectata sunt prorsus incommunicabilia. Sunt enim ipsissima Dei essentia. Neque tamen perperam distinguuntur in communicabilia & incommunicabilia, quia quaedam creaturis imprimunt sui imaginem, ut sapientia, bonitas, quaedam vix vestigium aut umbram tenuissimam. 6. Attributa Dei non multiplicantur in personis S. Trinitatis. Sicut enim una est essentia Patris, Filii & Spiritus sancti: sic quoque est una aeternitas, omnipotentia &c. Quapropter licet Pater sit omnipotens, & Filius omnipotens & Spiritus s. omnipotens: tamen non sunt tres omnipotentes, sed tres illi sunt unus omnipotens DEUS.