QUESTION 102

OF OBSERVANCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, AND OF ITS PARTS

(In Three Articles)

We must now consider observance and its parts, the considerations of

which will manifest the contrary vices.

Under the head of observance there are three points of inquiry:

(1) Whether observance is a special virtue, distinct from other

virtues?

(2) What does observance offer?

(3) Of its comparison with piety.

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