QUESTION 108

OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE NEW LAW

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider those things that are contained in the New Law:

under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether the New Law ought to prescribe or to forbid any outward

works?

(2) Whether the New Law makes sufficient provision in prescribing

and forbidding external acts?

(3) Whether in the matter of internal acts it directs man

sufficiently?

(4) Whether it fittingly adds counsels to precepts?

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