| ### QUESTION 109 ### OF THE NECESSITY OF GRACE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the exterior principle of human acts, i.e. God, in so far as, through grace, we are helped by Him to do right: and, first, we must consider the grace of God; secondly, its cause; thirdly, its effects. #### The first point of consideration will be threefold: for we shall consider (1) The necessity of grace; (2) grace itself, as to its essence; (3) its division. #### Under the first head there are ten points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether without grace man can know anything? #### (2) Whether without God's grace man can do or wish any good? #### (3) Whether without grace man can love God above all things? #### (4) Whether without grace man can keep the commandments of the Law? #### (5) Whether without grace he can merit eternal life? #### (6) Whether without grace man can prepare himself for grace? #### (7) Whether without grace he can rise from sin? #### (8) Whether without grace man can avoid sin? #### (9) Whether man having received grace can do good and avoid sin without any further Divine help? #### (10) Whether he can of himself persevere in good? ####  |