| ### QUESTION 62 ### OF THE SACRAMENTS' PRINCIPAL EFFECT, WHICH IS GRACE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We have now to consider the effect of the sacraments. First of their principal effect, which is grace; secondly, of their secondary effect, which is a character. Concerning the first there are six points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the sacraments of the New Law are the cause of grace? #### (2) Whether sacramental grace confers anything in addition to the grace of the virtues and gifts? #### (3) Whether the sacraments contain grace? #### (4) Whether there is any power in them for the causing of grace? #### (5) Whether the sacraments derive this power from Christ's Passion? #### (6) Whether the sacraments of the Old Law caused grace? ####  |