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24 ROMAN CATHOLICISM the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who grants to all sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth. Whence faith itself, although it should not work by charity, is a gift of God, and its act is a work pertaining to salvation, by which man yields to God himself free obedience, consenting to and co-operating with his grace which he could resist. Moreover, by divine and catholic faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the Word of God wTitten or handed down, and those which, as being divinely revealed, are proposed for belief by the Church either by a solemn judgment or by her ordinary and universal daily teaching. Since, however, without faith it is impossible to please God, and to attain to the fellowship of his children, it follows that no one is ever justified without faith, nor shall any one ever attain life everlasting unless he persevere therein to the end. But so that we may be able to fulfil the obligation of embracing the true faith and of constantly persevering in it, God through his only begotten Son instituted the Church, marking it with evident signs of his institution, so that it may be known to all men as the guardian and teacher of the revealed word. For to the Catholic Church alone belong all those many and so wonderful signs which have been divinely