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Question. 14 - OF THE QUALITY OF SATISFACTION (FIVE ARTICLES)

We must now consider the quality of satisfaction, under which head there are five points of inquiry:

(1) Whether a man can satisfy for one sin without satisfying for another?

(2) Whether if a man fall into sin after being for all his sins, he can, now that he has lost , satisfy for his other sins which were pardoned him through his ?

(3) Whether a man's previous satisfaction begins to avail when he recovers ?

(4) Whether works done without merit any good?

(5) Whether such works avail for the mitigation of the pains of hell?