De Gratia

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[Garrigou-Lagrange on St Dominic and All Holy Founders](https://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2022/08/garrigou-lagrange-on-st-dominic-and-all.html) ([ *De Gratia*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=3125), p. 20 [DjVu/PDF p. 14])> opera ipsius Dei sunt perfecta, prout omne agens agit sibi simile, et agens perfectissimum perfectum opus efficit; vg. dum Deus vult instituere novum ordinem religiosum sanctum fundatorem in Ecclesiam mittit, in quo fundatore omnes perfectiones hujusce novu ordinis saltem virtualiter continentur.> The works of God are perfect, as every agent works an effect similar to itself [[scholastic principle](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9124) #95], and the most perfect agent produces a perfect work; e.g., when God wants to institute a new religious order, He sends into the Church a holy founder, in which founder all the perfections of this new order are at least virtually contained.