cause (Combustion). There is therefore a group of three things, Cause, Form, Effect. If, as you
rightly say, God is the Causer of Causes, may we not in all reverence see some manifestation of His
nature in this as in a metaphor? God the Father may be regarded as the Cause; God the Son as the
Form; God the Holy Ghost as the Effect, proceeding from both. Fire cannot exist without Heat, or
Heat without Combustion, and so we have an indivisible Trinity. This is only an illustration of the
way in which God who is the Causer of Causes has grouped Causes, Forms and Effects together in
groups of threes1. When we learn the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity from the Bible, we
think that we can see illustrations of it in God's works2, as if the Invisible Causer of
Causes had chosen thus as it were to mirror forth something of the secret mystery of His Divine
Nature3.
Once more, among other titles of God is He not called "The
Lover" (