| ### QUESTION 21 ### OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN ACTIONS BY REASON OF THEIR GOODNESS AND MALICE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We have now to consider the consequences of human actions by reason of their goodness and malice: and under this head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether a human action is right or sinful by reason of its being good or evil? #### (2) Whether it thereby deserves praise or blame? #### (3) Whether accordingly, it is meritorious or demeritorious? #### (4) Whether it is accordingly meritorious or demeritorious before God? ####  |