13. Concerning the Three Theological Virtues. Now Divine Faithjs the Beginning of Every Grace, of All Gifts, and of All Divine Virtues, Since It Is a Certain Supernatural Light and the Foundation of All Good. Those Who Wish to Obtain It and to Be Enrolled in the Number of the Sons of the Eternal Kingdom Must Urge on Their Nature Towards That Point in Which It Can Especially Excel, So That They Should Seek and Consider How God Has Created Heaven and Earth Out of Love for the Sake of Man, and Has Endowed Man Himself with Various Gifts Both of Spirit and of Body ; and for Man's Sake Has Even Suffered Death Itself, and Wishes to Give Pardon Freely for All His Sins, If Only He Refuse Not to Do Penance : How He Is Ready Freely to Infuse Into Him Divine Charity and All the Virtues, and to Bestow Himself Wholly, and All That He Possesses Upon Him, in Order That He May Enjoy Eternal Glory for Ever ; Only He Desires That He May Consider This Very Thing Within Himself, and That of His Own Free Will He May Serve Him from True Obedience. and Because God Has Done All Things with the Freest Goodness, Affection and Generosity ; and His Nature Is to Flow Forth Perpetually in Time and Eternity, Together with All His Gifts, and to Uplift All Those on Whom He Bestows His Gifts to Himself and to Lead Them to Eternal Enjoyment : Rightly Then Should a Man Perform All His Works Out of Generosity or Free Will to God's Honour, Together with a True Humility and Obedience, Nor to Seek or Desire or Demand Aught in Return for Them, Save What God Wishes to Bestow. Since He Who Is Most Generous, Most Affectionate and Beneficent, Whatever the Payment of His Service Is to Be, Will Not Remain Unrewarded, Nor Will He Pass Away Into Forgetfulness. Now in This Manner Nature Is Led Up Into Its Own Supreme Height ; Whenever It Fails, and Can Proceed No Farther, God Approaches It with Supernatural Light, and So Illumines the Intelligence, That a Man May Conceive Greater Faith and Trustfulness Than Can Be Described. Therefore ' Let Him Consider and Look Upon That Undying Good for Which He Waits, and Without Any Doubtfulness or Hesitancy Let Him Jbok to Obtain That in Which He Trusts and Hopes. for from Thence a Certain Sensible Charity Issues Which Conjoins and Unites Him in Freedom Together with God. and These Are the Three Theological Virtues, to Wit, Faith, Hope and Charity. Together with These the Holy Spirit at the Same Time Descends Upon the Man's Soul, as a Living Fountain, Issuing Forth in Seven Rivulets, Which Are the Seven Divine Gifts, with Which the Soul Is Adorned, Settled, Ordered and Perfected, and Led to Eternal Life