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The Doctrine of God the Sanctifier

Habitual Grace

The Preparation for Justification

#117 The sinner can and must prepare himself by the help of actual grace for the reception of the grace by which he is justified.

#118 The justification of an adult is not possible without Faith.

#119 Besides faith, further acts of disposition must be present.


The Formal Effects of Sanctifying Grace

#120 Sanctifying grace sanctifies the soul.

#121 Sanctifying grace makes the just man a friend of God.

#122 Sanctifying grace makes the just man a child of God and gives him a claim to the inheritance of Heaven.


The Comity of sanctifying grace

#123 The three Divine or theological virtues of faith, hope and charity are infused with sanctifying grace.


The Attributes of the State of Grace

#124 Without special Divine Revelation no one can know with the certainty of faith, if he be in the state of grace.

#125 The degree of justifying grace is not identical in all the just.

#126 Grace can be increased by good works.

#127 The grace by which we are justified may be lost, and is lost by every grievous sin.




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