intellectual creature
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- pure
- unchanging
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- A creature identified with the "heaven of heavens," which partakes of God's eternity, maintains purity through contemplation of God, and exists beyond the vicissitudes of time.
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- first creation
- relation_to_God
- cleaving close unto Thee
- sustenance
- from God's eternity
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- partakes ofGod's eternity
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- The intellectual creature shares in a measure of God's timelessness, though not co-eternally.
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- yet partaketh of Thy eternity
- restrainsChangeableness
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- The intellectual creature controls its own mutable nature by constantly and happily contemplating God.
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- doth through the sweetness of that most happy contemplation of Thyself, strongly restrain its own changeableness
- is beyondrolling vicissitude of times
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- Due to its steadfastness and contemplation of God, the intellectual creature exists outside the changing flow of temporal events.
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- is placed beyond all the rolling vicissitude of times
- is not coeternal withGod
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- While partaking of God's eternity, the intellectual creature did have a beginning and is not equally eternal with God.
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- that neither is that creature coeternal unto Thyself
- draws nourishment fromGod
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- The intellectual creature sustains its purity and being by receiving spiritual sustenance directly from God.
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- drawing its nourishment from Thee
- keeps itself toGod
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- The intellectual creature maintains a close and devoted relationship with God through its entire being and love.
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- unto Whom with its whole affection it keeps itself
- is blessed inGod's Blessedness
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- The intellectual creature finds its blessed state by participating in and cleaving to God's own blessedness.
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- blest in Thee, its eternal Inhabitant and its Enlightener
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- 2026-03-02T21:56:23.174Z
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