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Psalm cxlvii. 14: "He hath made thy borders peace." Perhaps the Saint refers to what she has written in her Life, ch. xxxviii. sections 11, 12. Life, ch. iv. section 1. Relation VII. Made for Rodrigo Alvarez, S.J., in the Year 1575, According to Don Vicente de la Fuente; but in 1576, According to the Bollandists and F. Bouix.
See, thus are works forgiven, are without guilt and are good, not by their own nature, but by the mercy and grace of God because of the faith which trusts on the mercy of God. Therefore we must fear because of the works, but comfort ourselves because of the grace of God, as it is written, Psalm cxlvii: "The Lord taketh pleasure in them that I fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy."
"Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite." Psa. cxlvii. 5. "He revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and that the light dwelleth with him." Dan. ii. 2. "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world" Acts xv. 18. "The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men." Psa. xxxiii. 13.
One Psalm, namely Psalm cxlvii., was probably composed in the time of Nehemiah, in order that it might be sung at the dedication of the walls. Ver. 1: 'Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. Ver. 2: 'The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Thus Ps. ciii. 5, "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's," either gave rise to, or refers to, the tradition quoted in our account of the eagle: and likewise Job xxxviii. 41, and Ps. cxlvii. 9, seem to be responsible for the tradition in the account of the raven. It would be interesting to learn whether any independent traditions of this nature exist.
No other but such a constitution and investiture, can either be approven of by God, or answer the ends, ultimate or subordinate, of this ordinance, unto the honor of the great institutor, as appears from Prov. viii, 15, 16; Psa. cxlvii, 19, 20, and cxlix, G, 7, 8, 9; Isa. xlix, 23; Rom. xiii, 1, 2, 3, 4; Deut. xvii, 14, 15; 2 Sam. xxiii, 2, 3, 4; Exod. xviii, 21. Confess, chap. 23, § 1.
Oh my most sweet Beloved, let heaven and earth and all the glory of them, be silent in Thy presence; seeing whatsoever praise and beauty they have it is of Thy gracious bounty; and they shall never reach unto the loveliness of Thy Name, Whose Wisdom is infinite. Psalm lxviii. 10. Psalm lxxxvi. 4. Matthew xv. 32. Genesis viii. 21. Psalm cxlvii. 5.
"O source of wealth: O source of wealth! it is clothes that are honoured in this world and nothing else." CXLVII. The Winning of a Bride.
Examples of this kind occur on several vessels, of which that shown in plate CXLV, a, is an example. There are many pictures of birds and feathers where the design has become so conventionalized that it is very difficult to recognize the intention of the decorator. Plate CXLVII, f, shows one of these in which the feather motive is prominent and an approximation to a bird form evident.
And after having established the immortality of the soul, almost as it were per saltum, on the ground that the soul is not passive like the body, he proceeds to tell us in paragraph cxlvii. that the existence of God is more evident than that of man. And yet, in spite of this, there are still some who are doubtful!
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