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Q1. Preface Q2. Chapter I. the Function of the Wise Man Q3. Chapter Ii. of the Author’s Purpose Q4. Chapter Iii. That the Truths Which We Confess Concerning God Fall Under Two Modes or Categories Q5. Chapter Iv. That It Is an Advantage for the Truths of God, Known by Natural Reason, to Be Proposed to Men to Be Believed on Faith Q6. Chapter V. That It Is an Advantage for Things That Cannot He Searched Out by Reason to Be Proposed as Tenets of Faith Q7. Chapter Vi. That There Is No Lightmindedness in Assenting to Truths of Faith, Although They Are Above Reason Q8. Chapter Vii. That the Truth of Reason Is Not Contrary to the Truth of Christian Faith Q9. Chapter Viii. of the Relation of Human Reason to the First Truth of Faith Q10. Chapter Ix. the Order and Mode of Procedure in This Work Q11. Chapter X. of the Opinion of Those Who Say That the Existence of God Cannot He Proved, Being a Self-evident Truth Q12. Chapter Xi. Rejection of the Aforesaid Opinion, and Solution of the Aforesaid Reasons Q13. Chapter Xii. of the Opinion of Those Who Say That the Existence of God Is a Tenet of Faith Alone and Cannot He Demonstrated Q14. Chapter Xiii. Reasons in Proof of the Existence of God Q15. Chapter Xiv. That in Order to a Knowledge of God We Must Use the Method of Negative Differentiation Q16. Chapter Xv. That God Is Eternal Q17. Chapter Xvi. That in God There Is No Passive Potentiality Q18. Chapter Xviii. That in God There Is No Composition Q19. Chapter Xx. That God Is Incorporeal Q20. Chapter Xxi. That God Is His Own Essence Q21. Chapter Xxii. That in God Existence and Essence Is the Same Q22. Chapter Xxiii. That in God There Is No Accident Q23. Chapter Xxiv. That the Existence of God Cannot He Characterised by the Addition of Any Substantial Differentia Q24. Chapter Xxv. That God Is Not in Any Genus Q25. Chapter Xxvi. That God Is Not the Formal or Abstract Being of All Things Q26. Chapter Xxviii. That God Is Universal Perfection Q27. Chapter Xxix. How Likeness to God May Be Found in Creatures Q28. Chapter Xxx. What Names Can Be Predicated of God Q29. Chapter Xxxi. That the Plurality of Divine Names Is Not Inconsistent with the Simplicity of the Divine Being Predicated of God and of Other Beings Q30. Chapter Xxxii. That Nothing Is Predicated of God and Other Beings Synonymously Q31. Chapter Xxxiii. That It Is Not at All True That the Application of Common Predicates to God and to Creatures Involves Nothing Beyond a Mere Identity of Name Q32. Chapter Xxxiv. That the Things That Are Said God and Creatures Are Said Analogously Q33. Chapter Xxxv. That the Several Names Predicated of God Are Not Synonymous Q34. Chapter Xxxvi. That the Propositions Which Our Understanding Forms of God Are Not Void of Meaning Q35. Chapter Xxxviii. That God Is His Own Goodness Q36. Chapter Xxxix. That in God There Can Be No Evil Q37. Chapter Xl. That God Is the Good of All Good Q38. Chapter Xlii. That God Is One Q39. Chapter Xliii. That God Is Infinite Q40. Chapter Xliv. That God Has Understanding Q41. Chapter Xlv. That in God the Understanding Is His Very Essence Q42. Chapter Xlvi. That God Understands by Nothing Else Than by His Own Essence Q43. Chapter Xlvii. That God Perfectly Understands Himself Q44. Chapter Xlviii. That God Primarily and Essentially Knows Himself Alone Q45. Chapter Q46. Chapter L. That God Has a Particular Knowledge of All Things Q47. Chapter Li. Some Discussion of the Question How There Is in the Divine Understanding a Multitude of Objects Q48. Chapter Lii. Reasons to Show How the Multitude of Intelligible Ideal Forms Has No Existence Except in the Divine Understanding Q49. Chapter Liii. How There Is in God a Multitude of Objects of Understanding Q50. Chapter Liv. That the Divine Essence, Being One, Is the Proper Likeness and Type of All Things Intelligible Q51. Chapter Lv. That God Understands All Things at Once and Together Q52. Chapter Lvi. That There Is No Habitual Knowledge in God Q53. Chapter Lvii. That the Knowledge of God Is Not a Reasoned Knowledge Q54. Chapter Lviii. That God Does Not Understand by Combination and Separation of Ideas Q55. Chapter Lix. That the Truth to Be Found in Propositions Is Not Excluded from God Q56. Chapter Lx. That God Is Truth Q57. Chapter Lxi. That God Is Pure Truth Q58. Chapter Lxii. That the Truth of God Is the First and Sovereign Truth Q59. Chapter Lxiii. the Arguments of Those Who Wish to Withdraw from God the Knowledge of Individual Things Q60. Chapter Lxiv. a List of Things to Be Said Concerning the Divine Knowledge Q61. Chapter Lxv. That God Knows Individual Things Q62. Chapter Lxvi. That God Knows Things Which Are Not Q63. Chapter Lxvii. That God Knows Individual Contingent Events Q64. Chapter Lxviii. That God Knows the Motions of the Will Q65. Chapter Lxix. That God Knows Infinite Things Q66. Chapter Lxx. That God Knows Base and Mean Things Q67. Chapter Lxxi. That God Knows Evil Things Q68. Chapter Lxxii. That God Has a Will Q69. Chapter Lxxiii. That the Will of God Is His Essence Q70. Chapter Lxxiv. That the Object of the Will of God in the First Place Is God Himself Q71. Chapter Lxxv. That God in Willing Himself Wills Also Other Things Besides Himself Q72. Chapter Lxxvi. That with One and the Same Act of the Will God Wills Himself and All Other Beings Q73. Chapter Lxxvii. That the Multitude of the Objects of God’s Will Is Not Inconsistent with the Simplicity of His Substance Q74. Chapter Lxxviii. That the Divine Will Reaches to the Good of Individual Existences Q75. Chapter Lxxix. That God Wills Things Even That as Yet Are Not Q76. Chapter Lxxx. That God of Necessity Wills His Own Being and His Own Goodness Q77. Chapter Lxxxi. That God Does Not of Necessity Love Other Things Than Himself Q78. Chapter Lxxxii. Arguments Against the Aforesaid Doctrine and Solutions of the Same Q79. Chapter Lxxxiii. That God Wills Anything Else Than Himself with an Hypothetical Necessity Q80. Chapter Lxxxiv. That the Will of God Is Not of Things in Themselves Impossible Q81. Chapter Lxxxv. That the Divine Will Does Not Take Away Contingency from Things Q82. Chapter Lxxxvi. That Reason Can Be Assigned for the Divine Will Q83. Chapter Lxxxvii. That Nothing Can Be a Cause to the Divine Will Q84. Chapter Lxxxviii. That There Is a Free Will in God Q85. Chapter Lxxxix. That There Are No Passions in God Q86. Chapter Xc. That There Is in God Delight and Joy Q87. Chapter Xci. That There Is Love in God.Q88. Chapter Xcii. in What Sense Virtues Can Be Posited in God Q89. Chapter Xciii. That in God There Are the Virtues Which Regulate Action Q90. Chapter Xciv. That the Contemplative (intellectual) Virtues Are in God Q91. Chapter Xcv. That God Cannot Will Evil Q92. Chapter Xcvi. That God Hates Nothing Q93. Chapter Xcvii. That God Is Living Q94. Chapter Xcviii. That God Is His Own Life Q95. Chapter Xcix. That the Life of God Is Everlasting Q96. Chapter C. That God Is Happy Q97. Chapter Ci. That God Is His Own Happiness Q98. Chapter Cii. That the Happiness of God Is Most Perfect, and Exceeds All Other Happiness Q99. Chapter I. Connexion of What Follows with What Has Gone Before.Q100. Chapter Iv. That the Philosopher and the Theologian View Creatures from Different Standpoints Q101. Chapter V. Order of Matters to Be Treated Q102. Chapter Vi. That It Belongs to God to Be to Other Beings the Principle of Existence Q103. Chapter Vii. That There Is in God Active Power Q104. Chapter Viii. That God’s Power Is His Substance Q105. Chapter Ix. That God’s Power Is His Action Q106. Chapter X. in What Manner Power Is Said to Be in God Q107. Chapter Xi. That Something Is Predicated of God in Relation to Creatures Q108. Chapter Xii. That the Relations, Predicated of God in Regard to Creatures, Are Not Really in God Q109. Chapter Xiii. How the Aforesaid Relations Are Predicated of God Q110. Chapter Xiv. That the Predication of Many Relations of God Is No Prejudice to the Simplicity and Singleness of His Being Q111. Chapter Xv. That God Is to All Things the Cause of Their Being Q112. Chapter Xvi. That God Has Brought Things Into Being Out of Nothing Q113. Chapter Xvii. That Creation Is Not a Movement nor a Change Q114. Chapter Xviii. Solution of Arguments Against Creation Q115. Chapter Xix. That Creation Is Not Successive Q116. Chapter Xxi. That It Belongs to God Alone to Create Q117. Chapter Xxii. That God Is Almighty Q118. Chapter Xxiii. That God’s Action in Creation Is Not of Physical Necessity, but of Free Choice of Will Q119. Chapter Xxiv. That God Acts by His Wisdom Q120. Chapter Xxv. in What Sense Some Things Are Said to Be Impossible to the Almighty Q121. Chapter Xxvi. That the Divine Understanding Is Not Limited to Certain Fixed Effects Q122. Chapter Xxviii. That God Has Not Brought Things Into Being in Discharge of Any Debt of Justice Q123. Chapter Xxix. How in the Production of a Creature There May Be Found a Debt of Justice in Respect of the Necessary Sequence of Something Posterior Upon Something Prior Q124. Chapter Xxx. How Absolute Necessity May Have Place in Creation Q125. Chapter Xxxi. That It Is Not Necessary for Creatures to Have Existed from Eternity Q126. Chapter Xxxii, Xxxv. Reasons Alleged for the Eternity of the World on the Part of God, with Answers to the Same Q127. Chapters Xxxiii, Xxxvi. Reasons Alleged for the Eternity of the World on the Part Creatures, with Answers to the Same Q128. Chapter Xxxiv, Xxxvii. Reasons Alleged for the Eternity of the World on the Part of the Creative Process Itself, with Answers to the Same Q129. Chapter Xxxviii. Arguments Wherewith Some Try to Show That the World Is Not Eternal, and Solutions of the Same Q130. Chapter Xli. That the Variety of Creatures Does Not Arise from Any Contrariety of Prime Agents Q131. Chapter Xliv. That the Variety of Creatures Has Not Arisen from Variety of Merits and Demerits Q132. Chapter Xlv. the Real Prime Cause of the Variety of Creatures.Q133. Chapter Xlvi. That It Was Necessary for the Perfection of the Universe That There Should Be Some Intellectual Natures Q134. Chapter Xlvii. That Subsistent Intelligences Are Voluntary Agents Q135. Chapter Xlviii. That Subsistent Intelligences Have Free Will Q136. Chapter Xlix. That Subsistent Intelligence Is Not Corporeal Q137. Chapter Lii. That in Created Subsistent Intelligences There Is a Difference Between Existence and Essence Q138. Chapter Liii. That in Created Subsistent Intelligences There Is Actuality and Potentiality Q139. Chapter Lv. That Subsistent Intelligences Are Imperishable Q140. Chapter Lvi, Lxix. How a Subsistent Intelligence May Be United with a Body, with a Solution of the Arguments Alleged to Prove That a Subsistent Intelligence Cannot Be United with a Body as Its Form Q141. Chapter Lvii. Plato’s Theory of the Union of the Intellectual Soul with the Body Q142. Chapter Lviii. That Vegetative, Sentient, and Intelligent Are Not in Man Three Souls Q143. Chapter Lix. That the Potential Intellect of Man Is Not a Spirit Subsisting Apart from Matter Q144. Chapter Lx. That Man Is Not a Member the Human Species by Possession of Passive Intellect, but by Possession of Potential Intellect Q145. Chapter Lxi. That the Aforesaid Tenet Is Contrary to the Mind of Aristotle Q146. Chapter Lxii. Against the Opinion of Alexander Concerning the Potential Intellect Q147. Chapter Lxiv. That the Soul Is Not a Harmony Q148. Chapter Lxv. That the Soul Is Not a Body Q149. Chapter Lxvi. Against Those Who Suppose Intellect and Sense to Be the Same Q150. Chapter Lxvii. Against Those Who Maintain That the Potential Intellect Is the Phantasy Q151. Chapter Lxviii. How a Subsistent Intelligence May Be the Form of a Body Q152. Chapter Lxix. Solution of the Arguments Alleged to Show That a Subsistent Intelligence Cannot Be United with a Body as the Form of That Body Q153. Chapter Lxxiii. That the Potential Intellect Is Not One and the Same in All Men Q154. Chapter Lxxiv. of the Opinion of Avicenna, Who Supposed Intellectual Forms Not to Be Preserved in the Potential Intellect Q155. Chapter Lxxv. Confutation of the Arguments Which Seem to Prove the Unity of the Potential Intellect Q156. Chapter Lxxvi. That the Active Intellect Is Not a Separately Subsisting Intelligence, but a Faculty of the Soul Q157. Chapter Lxxvii. That It Is Not Impossible for the Potential and the Active Intellect to Be United in the One Substance of the Soul Q158. Chapter Lxxviii. That It Was Not the Opinion of Aristotle That the Active Intellect Is a Separately Subsistent Intelligence, but Rather That It Is a Part of the Soul Q159. Chapter Lxxix. That the Human Soul Does Not Perish with the Body Q160. Chapter Lxxx, Lxxxi. Arguments of Those Who Wish to Prove That the Human Soul Perishes with the Body, with Replies to the Same Q161. Chapter Lxxxii. That the Souls of Dumb Animals Are Not Immortal Q162. Chapter Lxxxiii, Lxxxiv. Apparent Arguments to Show That the Human Soul Does Not Begin with the Body, but Has Been from Eternity, with Replies to the Same Q163. Chapter Lxxxv. That the Soul Is Not of the Substance of God Q164. Chapter Lxxxvi. That the Human Soul Is Not Transmitted by Generation Q165. Chapter Lxxxvii. That the Human Soul Is Brought Into Being by a Creative Act of God Q166. Chapter Lxxxviii, Lxxxix. Arguments Against the Truth of the Conclusion Last Drawn, with Their Solution Q167. Chapter Xci. That There Are Subsistent Intelligences Not United with Bodies Q168. Chapter Xciii. That Intelligences Subsisting Apart Are Not More Than One in the Same Species Q169. Chapter Xciv. That an Intelligence Subsisting Apart and a Soul Are Not of One Species Q170. Chapter Xcvi. That Intelligences Subsisting Apart Do Not Gather Their Knowledge from Objects of Sense Q171. Chapter Xcvii. That the Mind of an Intelligence Subsisting Apart Is Ever in the Act of Understanding Q172. Chapter Chapter Xcviii. How One Separately Subsisting Intelligence Knows Another Q173. Chapter Xcix. That Intelligences Subsisting Apart Know Material Things, That Is to Say, the Species of Things Corporeal Q174. Chapter C. That Intelligences Subsisting Apart Know Individual Things Q175. Chapter Ci. Whether to Separately Subsisting Intelligences All Points of Their Natural Knowledge Are Simultaneously Present Q176. Chapter I. Preface to the Book That Follows Q177. Chapter Ii. That Every Agent Acts to Some End Q178. Chapter Iii. That Every Agent Acts to Some Good Q179. Chapter Iv. That Evil in Things Is Beside the Intention of the Agent Q180. Chapters V, Vi. Arguments Against the Truth of the Conclusion Last Drawn, with Solutions of the Same Q181. Chapter Vii. That Evil Is Not a Nature or Essence Q182. Chapters Viii, Ix. Arguments Against the Aforsesaid Conclusion, with Answers to the Same Q183. Chapter X. That the Cause of Evil Is Good Q184. Chapter Xi. That Evil Is Founded in Some Good Q185. Chapter Xii. That Evil Does Not Entirely Swallow Up Good Q186. Chapter Xiv. That Evil Is an Accidental Cause Q187. Chapter Xv. That There Is Not Any Sovereign Evil, Acting as the Principle of All Evils Q188. Chapter Xvi. That the End in View of Everything Is Some Good Q189. Chapter Xvii. That All Things Are Ordained to One End, Which Is God Q190. Chapter Xviii. How God Is the End of All Things Q191. Chapter Xix.Q192. Chapter Xx. How Things Copy the Divine Goodness Q193. Chapter Xxi. That Things Aim at Likeness to God in Being Causes of Other Things Q194. Chapter Xxiv. That All Things Seek Good, Even Things Devoid of Consciousness Q195. Chapter Xxv. That the End of Every Subsistent Intelligence Is to Understand God Q196. Chapter Xxvi. That Happiness Does Not Consist in Any Act of the Will Q197. Chapter Xxvii. That the Happiness of Man Does Not Consist in Bodily Pleasures Q198. Chapter Xxviii, Xxix. That Happiness Does Not Consist in Honours nor in Human Glory Q199. Chapter Xxx. That Man’s Happiness Does Not Consist in Riches Q200. Chapter Xxxi. That Happiness Does Not Consist in Worldly Power Q201. Chapter Xxxii. That Happiness Does Not Consist in the Goods of the Body Q202. Chapter Xxxiv. That the Final Happiness Man Does Not Consist in Acts of the Moral Virtues Q203. Chapter Xxxvii. That the Final Happiness of Man Consists in the Contemplation of God Q204. Chapter Xxxviii. That Human Happiness Does Not Consist in Such Knowledge of God as Is Common to the Majority of Mankind Q205. Chapter Xxxix. That Happiness Does Not Consist in the Knowledge of God Which Is to Be Had by Demonstration Q206. Chapter Xl. That Happiness Does Not Consist in the Knowledge of God by Faith Q207. Chapter Xlvi. That the Soul in This Life Does Not Understand Itself by Itself Q208. Chapter Xlvii. That We Cannot in This Life See God as He Essentially Is Q209. Chapter Xlviii. That the Final Happiness of Man Is Not in This Life Q210. Chapter Xlix. That the Knowledge Which Pure Spirits Have of God Through Knowing Their Own Essence Does Not Carry with It a Vision of the Essence of God Q211. Chapter L. That the Desire of Pure Intelligences Does Not Rest Satisfied in the Natural Knowledge Which They Have of God Q212. Chapter Li. How God Is Seen as He Essentially Is Q213. Chapter Lii. That No Created Substance Can of Its Natural Power Arrive to See God as He Essentially Is Q214. Chapter Liii. That a Created Intelligence Needs Some Influx of Divine Light to See God in His Essence Q215. Chapter Liv. Arguments Against the Aforesaid Statements, and Their Solutions Q216. Chapter Lv. That the Created Intelligence Does Not Comprehend the Divine Substance Q217. Chapter Lvi. That No Created Intelligence in Seeing God Sees All Things That Can Be Seen in Him Q218. Chapter Lvii. That Every Intelligence of Every Grade Can Be Partaker of the Vision of God Q219. Chapter Lviii. That One May See God More Perfectly Than Another Q220. Chapter Lix. How They Who See the Divine Substance See All Things Q221. Chapter Lx. That They Who See God See All Things in Him at Once Q222. Chapter Lxi. That by the Sight of God One Is Partaker of Life Everlasting Q223. Chapter Lxii. That They Who See God Will See Him for Ever Q224. Chapter Lxiii. How in That Final Happiness Every Desire of Man Is Fulfilled Q225. Chapter Lxiv. That God Governs Things by His Providence Q226. Chapter Lxv. That God Preserves Things in Being Q227. Chapter Lxvi. That Nothing Gives Being Except in as Much as It Acts in the Power of God Q228. Chapter Lxvii. That God Is the Cause of Activity in All Active Agents Q229. Chapter Lviii. That God Is Everywhere and in All Things Q230. Chapter Lvix. of the Opinion of Those Who Withdraw from Natural Things Their Proper Actions Q231. Lxx. How the Same Effect Is from God and from a Natural Agent Q232. Chapter Lxxi. That the Divine Providence Is Not Wholly Inconsistent with the Presence of Evil in Creation Q233. Chapter Lxxii. That Divine Providence Is Not Inconsistent with an Element of Contingency in Creation Q234. Chapter Lxxiii. That Divine Providence Is Not Inconsistent with Freedom of the Will Q235. Chapter Lxxiv. That Divine Providence Is Not Inconsistent with Fortune and Chance Q236. Chapter Lxxv. That the Providence of God Is Exercised Over Individual and Contingent Things Q237. Chapter Lxxvi. That the Providence of God Watches Immediately Over All Individual Things Q238. Chapter Lxxvii. That the Arrangements of Divine Providence Are Carried Into Execution by Means of Secondary Causes Q239. Chapter Lxxviii. That Intelligent Creatures Are the Medium Through Which Other Creatures Are Governed by God Q240. Chapter Lxxxi. of the Subordination of Men One to Another Q241. Chapter Lxxxviii. That Other Subsistent Intelligences Cannot Be Direct Causes of Our Elections and Volitions Q242. Chapter Lxxxix. That the Motion of the Will Is Caused by God, and Not Merely by the Power of the Will Q243. Chapter Xc. That Human Choices and Volitions Are Subject to Divine Providence Q244. Chapter Xci. How Human Things Are Reduced to Higher Causes Q245. Chapter Xcii. in What Sense One Is Said to Be Fortunate, and How Man Is Aided by Higher Causes Q246. Chapter Xciii. of Fate, Whether There Be Such a Thing, and If So, What It Is Q247. Chapter Xciv. of the Certainty of Divine Providence Q248. Chapter Xcv, Xcvi. That the Immutability of Divine Providence Does Not Bar the Utility of Prayer Q249. Chapter Xcvi. That God Does Not Hear All Prayers Q250. Chapter Xcvii. How the Arrangements of Providence Follow a Plan Q251. Chapter Xcix. God Can Work Beyond the Order Laid Down for Creatures, and Produce Effects Without Proximate Causes Q252. Chapter C. That the Things Which God Does Beyond the Order of Nature Are Not Contrary to Nature Q253. Chapter Ci. of Miracles Q254. Chapter Cii. That God Alone Works Miracles Q255. Chapter Ciii. How Separately Subsisting Spirits Work Certain Wonders, Which Yet Are Not True Miracles Q256. Chapter Cv. Whence the Performances of Magicians Derive Their Efficacy Q257. Chapter Cvi. That the Subsistent Intelligence, Which Lends Efficacy to Magical Performances, Is Not Good in Both Categories of Being Q258. Chapte Cvii. That the Subsistent Intelligence, Whose Aid Is Employed in Magic, Is Not Evil by Nature Q259. Chapter Cix. That in Spirits There May Be Sin, and How Q260. Chapters Cviii, Cx. Arguments Seeming to Prove That Sin Is Impossible to Spirits, with Solutions of the Same Q261. Chapter Cxii. That Rational Creatures Are Governed by Providence for Their Own Sakes, and Other Creatures in Reference to Them Q262. Chapter Cxiii. That the Acts of the Rational Creature Are Guided by God, Not Merely to the Realisation of the Specific Type, but Also to the Realisation of the Individual Q263. Chapter Cxiv. That It Was Necessary for a Law to Be Given to Man by God Q264. Chapter Cxv. That the Main Purpose of the Divine Law Is to Subordinate Man to God Q265. Chapter Cxvi. That the End of the Divine Law Is the Love of God Q266. Chapter Cxviii. That by Divine Law Men Are Obliged to a Right Faith Q267. Chapter Cxix. That by Certain Sensible Rites Our Mind Is Directed to God Q268. Chapter Cxx. That the Worship of Latria Is to Be Paid to God Alone Q269. Chapter Cxxi. That the Divine Law Directs Man to a Rational Use of Corporeal and Sensible Things Q270. Chapter Cxxii. of the Reason for Which Simple Fornication Is a Sin by Divine Law, and of the Natural Institution of Marriage Q271. Chapter Cxxiii. That Marriage Ought to Be Indissoluble Q272. Chapter Cxxiv. That Marriage Ought to Be Between One Man and One Woman Q273. Chapter Cxxv. That Marriage Ought Not to Take Place Between Kindred Q274. Chapter Cxxvi. That Not All Sexual Intercourse Is Sin Q275. Chapter Cxxvii. That of No Food Is the Use Sinful in Itself Q276. Chapter Cxxviii. How the Law of God Relates a Man to His Neighbour Q277. Chapter Cxxix. That the Things Commanded by the Divine Law Are Right, Not Only Because the Law Enacts Them, but Also According to Nature Q278. Chapter Cxxx. That the Divine Government of Men Is After the Manner of Paternal Government Q279. Chapter Cxxxi. of the Counsels That Are Given in the Divine Law Q280. Chapters Cxxxii, Cxxxv. Arguments Against Voluntary Poverty, with Replies Q281. Chapters Cxxxiii, Cxxxvi. of Various Modes of Living Adopted by the Votaries of Voluntary Poverty Q282. Chapter Cxxxiv. in What the Good of Poverty Consists Q283. Chapter Cxxxvii. Arguments Against Perpetual Continence, with Replies Q284. Chapter Cxxxix. Against Those Who Find Fault with Vows Q285. Chapter Cxl. That Neither All Good Works nor All Sins Are Equal Q286. Chapter Cxli. That a Man’s Acts Are Punished or Rewarded by God Q287. Chapter Cxlii. of the Difference and Order of Punishments Q288. Chapter Cxliii. That Not All Punishments nor All Rewards Are Equal Q289. Chapter Cxliv. of the Punishment Due to Mortal and Venial Sins Respectively in Regard to the Last End Q290. Chapter Cxlv. That the Punishment Whereby One Is Deprived of His Last End Is Interminable Q291. Chapter Cxlvi. That Sins Are Punished Also by the Experience of Something Painful Q292. Chapter Cxlvii. That It Is Lawful for Judges to Inflict Punishments Q293. Chapter Cxlviii. That Man Stands in Need of Divine Grace for the Gaining of Happiness Q294. Chapter Cxlix. That the Divine Assistance Does Not Compel a Man to Virtue Q295. Chapter Cl. That Man Cannot Merit Beforehand the Said Assistance Q296. Chapter Cli. That the Aforesaid Assistance Is Called ‘grace,’ and What Is the Meaning of ‘grace Constituting a State of Grace’Q297. Chapter Clii. That the Grace Which Constitutes the State of Grace Causes in Us the Love of God Q298. Chapter Cliii. That Divine Grace Causes in Us Faith Q299. Chapter Cliv. That Divine Grace Causes in Us a Hope of Future Blessedness Q300. Chapter Clv. of Graces Given Gratuitously Q301. Chapter Clvi.that Man Needs the Assistance of Divine Grace to Persevere in Good Q302. Chapter Clvii. That He Who Falls from Grace by Sin May Be Recovered Again by Grace Q303. Chapter Clviii. That Man Cannot Be Delivered from Sin Except by Grace Q304. Chapter Clix. How Man Is Delivered from Sin Q305. Chapter Clx. That It Is Reasonably Reckoned a Man’s Own Fault If He Be Not Converted to God, Although He Cannot Be Converted Without Grace Q306. Chapter Clxi. That a Man Already in Mortal Sin Cannot Avoid More Mortal Sin Without Grace Q307. Chapter Clxii. That Some Men God Delivers from Sin, and Some He Leaves in Sin Q308. Chapter Clxiii. That God Is Cause of Sin to No Man Q309. Chapter Clxiv. of Predestination, Reprobation, and Divine Election Q310. Chapter I. Preface Q311. Chapter Ii. of Generation, Paternity, and Sonship in God Q312. Chapter Iii. That the Son of God Is God Q313. Chapters Iv, Ix. the Opinion of Photinus Touching the Son of God, and Its Rejection Q314. Chapter V. Rejection of the Opinion of Sabellius Concerning the Son of God Q315. Chapter Vi. of the Opinion of Arius Concerning the Son of God Q316. Chapter Vii. Rejection of Arius’s Position Q317. Chapter Viii. Explanation of the Texts Which Arius Used to Allege for Himself Q318. Chapter 12. How the Son of God Is Called the Wisdom of God Q319. Chapter Xvii. That the Holy Ghost Is True God Q320. Chapter Xviii. That the Holy Ghost Is a Subsistent Person Q321. Chapter Xx. of the Effects Which the Scriptures Attribute to the Holy Ghost in Respect of the Whole Creation Q322. Chapter Xxi. of the Effects Attributed to the Holy Ghost in Scripture in the Way of Gifts Bestowed on the Rational Creature Q323. Chapter Xxii. of the Effects Attributed to the Holy Ghost in the Attraction of the Rational Creature to God Q324. Chapter Xxiii. Replies to Arguments Alleged Against the Divinity of the Holy Ghost Q325. Chapter Xxiv. That the Holy Ghost Proceeds from the Son Q326. Chapter Xxvi. That There Are Only Three Persons in the Godhead, Father and Son and Holy Ghost Q327. Chapter Xxvii. of the Incarnation of the Word According to the Tradition of Holy Scripture Q328. Chapter Xxviii. of the Error of Photinus Concerning the Incarnation Q329. Chapter Xxix. of the Error of the Manicheans Concerning the Incarnation Q330. Chapters Xxxii, Xxxiii. of the Error of Arius and Apollinaris Concerning the Soul of Christ Q331. Chapter Xxxiv. of the Error of Theodore of Mopsuestia Concerning the Union of the Word with Man Q332. Chapter Xxxv. Against the Error of Eutyches Q333. Chapter Xxxvi. of the Error of Macarius of Antioch, Who Posited One Operation Only and One Will Only in Christ Q334. Chapter Xxxix. the Doctrine of Catholic Faith Concerning the Incarnation Q335. Chapter Xli. Some Further Elucidation of the Incarnation Q336. Chapter Xl, Xlix. Objections Against the Faith of the Incarnation, with Replies Q337. Chapter Xliv. That the Human Nature, Assumed by the Word, Was Perfect in Soul and Body in the Instant of Conception Q338. Chapter Xlv. That Christ Was Born of a Virgin Without Prejudice to His True and Natural Humanity Q339. Chapters Xlvi, Xlvii. That Christ Was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Q340. Chapter Liv. of the Incarnation as Part of the Fitness of Things Q341. Chapter Lv. Points of Reply to Difficulties Touching the Economy of the Incarnation Q342. Chapter L. That Original Sin Is Transmitted from Our First Parent to His Posterity Q343. Chapter Li, Lii. Arguments Against Original Sin, with Replies Q344. Chapter Lvi. of the Need of Sacraments Q345. Chapter Lvii. of the Difference Between the Sacraments of the Old and of the New Law Q346. Chapter Lviii. of the Number of the Sacraments of the New Law Q347. Chapter Lix. of Baptism Q348. Chapter Lx. of Confirmation Q349. Chapter Lxi. of the Eucharist Q350. Chapter Lxiii. of the Conversion of Bread Into the Body of Christ Q351. Chapter Lxiv. an Answer to Difficulties Raised in Respect of Place Q352. Chapter Lxv. the Difficulty of the Accidents Remaining Q353. Chapter Lxvi. What Happens When the Sacramental Species Pass Away Q354. Chapter Lxvii. Answer to the Difficulty Raised in Respect of the Breaking of the Host Q355. Chapter Lxviii. the Explanation of a Text Q356. Chapter Lxix. of the Kind of Bread and Wine That Ought to Be Used for the Consecration of This Sacrament Q357. Chapter Lxxi. That a Man Who Sins After the Grace of the Sacraments May Be Converted to Grace Q358. Chapter Lxxii. of the Need of the Sacrament of Penance, and of the Parts Thereof Q359. Chapter Lxxiii. of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction Q360. Chapter Lxxiv. of the Sacrament of Order Q361. Chapter Lxxv. of the Distinction of Orders Q362. Chapter Lxxvi. of the Episcopal Dignity, and That Therein One Bishop Is Supreme Q363. Chapter Lxxvii. That Sacraments Can Be Administered Even by Wicked Ministers Q364. Chapter Lxxviii. of the Sacrament of Matrimony Q365. Chapter Lxxix. That Through Christ the Resurrection of Our Bodies Will Take Place Q366. Chapter Lxxxi. Some Points of Reply to Difficulties on the Resurrection Q367. Chapter Lxxxii. That Men Shall Rise Again Immortal Q368. Chapter Lxxxiii. Hat in the Resurrection There Will Be No Use of Food or Intercourse of the Sexes Q369. Chaptr Lxxxiv. That Risen Bodies Shall Be of the Same Nature as Before Q370. Chapter Lxxxv. That the Bodies of the Risen Shall Be Otherwise Organised Than Before Q371. Chapter Lxxxvi. of the Qualities of Glorified Bodies Q372. Chapter Lxxxviii. of Sex and Age in the Resurrection Q373. Chapter Lxxxix. of the Quality of Risen Bodies in the Lost Q374. Chapter Xc. How Incorporeal Subsistent Spirits Suffer from Corporeal Fire, and Are Befittingly Punished with Corporeal Punishments Q375. Chapter Xci. That Souls Enter Upon Punishment or Reward Immediately After Their Separation from Their Bodies Q376. Chapter Xcii. That the Souls of the Saints After Death Have Their Will Immutably Fixed on Good Q377. Chapter Xciii. That the Souls of the Wicked After Death Have Their Will Immutably Fixed on Evil Q378. Chapter Xciv. of the Immutability of the Will of Souls Detained in Purgatory Q379. Chapter Xcv. of the General Cause of Immutability in All Souls After Their Separation from the Body Q380. Chapter Cxvi. of the Last Judgement Q381. Chapter Xcvii. of the State of the World After the Judgement Q382. Afterword

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