| ### QUESTION 23 ### OF PREDESTINATION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### After consideration of divine providence, we must treat of predestination and the book of life. Concerning predestination there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether predestination is suitably attributed to God? #### (2) What is predestination, and whether it places anything in the predestined? #### (3) Whether to God belongs the reprobation of some men? #### (4) On the comparison of predestination to election; whether, that is to say, the predestined are chosen? #### (5) Whether merits are the cause or reason of predestination, or reprobation, or election? #### (6) of the certainty of predestination; whether the predestined will infallibly be saved? #### (7) Whether the number of the predestined is certain? #### (8) Whether predestination can be furthered by the prayers of the saints? ####  |