Man possesses _Reason,_ which _knows, Mind,_ or a feeling wisdom, which _wits,_ and _Love,_ which _loves_. The making of Man by the Son of God as Eternal Christ, is the work of _Nature_; the falling of Man is "suffered" (allowed), and afterwards healed, by _Mercy_; the raising of Man to a higher than his first state is the work of _Grace_. "In Nature we have our Being; in Mercy we have our Increasing; in Grace we have our Fulfilling." The work of grace by means of our natural Reason enlightened by the Holy Ghost to see our sins, is _Contrition_; by means of our naturally-feeling Mind, touched by the Holy Ghost to behold the pain of the world, is _Compassion_; by means of our nature-and grace-inspired Love, which loves our Maker and Saviour (still by the separation of sin partially, painfully, hid from our sight) is greater _Longing toward God_. This longing must become an active "desire": for the chief work that we can do as fellow-workers with God in achieving full oneness with Him is _Prayer_; of which there are three things to understand: its _Ground_ is God by whose Goodness it springeth in us; its _use_ is "to turn our will to the will of our Lord"; its _end_ is "that we should be made one with and like to our Lord in all things." And lastly we have for this life, both by nature and grace, the comprehensive virtue of _Faith_, "in which all our virtues come to us" and which has in its own nature three elements: _understanding, belief,_ and _trust_. With Faith, which belongs perhaps chiefly to Reason,--Faith is "nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not," "A light by nature coming from our endless Day, that is our Father, God" (liv., lxxxiii.)--is also _Hope_, which belongs to our feeling Mind (our Remembrance) and to the work of Mercy in this our fallen state: "Hope that we shall come to our Substance (our high and heavenly nature) again." Moreover, "Charity keepeth us in Hope and Hope leadeth us in Charity; and in the end all shall be _Charity_" (lxxxv.). With these trinities and groups of threes are others, belonging to God and man, mentioned successively in the closing chapters of the book: three manners of God's Beholding (or Regard of Countenance): that of the Passion, that of Compassion, and that of Bliss; three kinds of longing God has: to teach us, to have us, to fulfil us; three things that man needs in this life from God: Love, Longing, and Pity--"pity in love," to keep him now, and "longing in the same love" to draw him to heaven; three things by which man standeth in this life and by which God is worshipped: "use of man's reason natural; common teaching of Holy Church; inward gracious working of the Holy Ghost";--and last of all, "three properties of God, in which the strength and effect of all the Revelation standeth," "_Life, Love and Light_."