| ### QUESTION 114 ### OF MERIT ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider merit, which is the effect of cooperating grace; and under this head there are ten points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether a man can merit anything from God? #### (2) Whether without grace anyone can merit eternal life? #### (3) Whether anyone with grace may merit eternal life condignly? #### (4) Whether it is chiefly through the instrumentality of charity that grace is the principle of merit? #### (5) Whether a man may merit the first grace for himself? #### (6) Whether he may merit it for someone else? #### (7) Whether anyone can merit restoration after sin? #### (8) Whether he can merit for himself an increase of grace or charity? #### (9) Whether he can merit final perseverance? #### (10) Whether temporal goods fall under merit? ####  |