| ### QUESTION 5 ### OF THE EFFECT OF CONTRITION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the effect of contrition: under which head there are three points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the remission of sin is the effect of contrition? #### (2) Whether contrition can take away the debt of punishment entirely? #### (3) Whether slight contrition suffices to blot out great sins? ####  |