1. Believers have always found their satisfaction in that Divine utterance, which our ears heard recited from the Gospel at the moment when that Power, which is its attestation, was bestowed upon us:—Go now and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I command you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world49    St. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20.. What element in the mystery of man’s salvation is not included in those words? What is forgotten, what left in darkness? All is full, as from the Divine fulness; perfect, as from the Divine perfection. The passage contains the exact words to be used, the essential acts, the sequence of processes, an insight into the Divine nature. He bade them baptize in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, that is with confession of the Creator and of the Only-begotten, and of the Gift. For God the Father is One, from Whom are all things; and our Lord Jesus Christ the Only-begotten, through Whom are all things, is One; and the Spirit, God’s Gift to us, Who pervades all things, is also One. Thus all are ranged according to powers possessed and benefits conferred;—the One Power from Whom all, the One Offspring through Whom all, the One Gift Who gives us perfect hope. Nothing can be found lacking in that supreme Union which embraces, in Father, Son and Holy Spirit, infinity in the Eternal, His Likeness in His express Image, our enjoyment of Him in the Gift.

1. Quod sufficiat Trinitatis notitia in baptismo tradita. 0050C ---Sufficiebat credentibus Dei sermo, qui in aures nostras Evangelistae testimonio cum ipsa veritatis suae virtute transfusus est, cum dicit Dominus: Euntes nunc docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, docentes eos servare omnia quaecumque mando vobis: et ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus usque in consummationem saeculi (Matth. XXVIII, 19, 20). Quid enim in eo de sacramento salutis humanae non continetur? aut quid est, quod sit reliquum aut obscurum? Plena sunt omnia ut a pleno, et a perfecto perfecta . Nam et verborum significationem, et efficientiam rerum, et negotiorum ordinem, et naturae intelligentiam comprehendunt. Baptizare jussit in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti, id est, in 0050D confessione et auctoris, et unigeniti, et doni. Auctor unus est omnium. Unus est enim Deus Pater, ex quo omnia; et unus Unigenitus Dominus noster 0051A Jesus Christus, per quem omnia; et unus Spiritus, donum in omnibus. Omnia ergo sunt suis virtutibus ac meritis ordinata: una potestas ex qua omnia, una progenies per quam omnia, perfectae spei munus unum. Nec deesse quidquam consummationi tantae reperietur, intra quam sit, in Patre et Filio et Spiritu sancto, infinitas in aeterno, species in imagine, usus in munere.