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78. Of That Cause of Sin Which Is Malice
79. Of the External Causes of Sin
80. Of the Cause of Sin, As Regards the Devil
81. Of the Cause of Sin, on the Part of Man
82. Of Original Sin, As to Its Essence
83. Of the Subject of Original Sin
84. Of the Cause of Sin, in Respect of One Sin Being the Cause
of Another
85. Of the Effects of Sin, and, First, of the Corruption of the
Good of Nature
86. Of the Stain of Sin
87. Of the Debt of Punishment
88. Of Venial and Mortal Sin
89. Of Venial Sin in Itself

TREATISE ON LAW

90. Of the Essence of Law
91. Of the Various Kinds of Law
92. Of the Effects of Law
93. Of the Eternal Law
94. Of the Natural Law
95. Of Human Law
96. Of the Power of Human Law
97. Of Change in Laws
98. Of the Old Law
99. Of the Precepts of the Old Law
100. Of the Moral Precepts of the Old Law
101. Of the Ceremonial Precepts in Themselves
102. Of the Causes of the Ceremonial Precepts
103. Of the Duration of the Ceremonial Precepts
104. Of the Judicial Precepts
105. Of the Reason for the Judicial Precepts
106. Of the Law of the Gospel, Called the New Law, Considered in Itself
107. Of the New Law As Compared with the Old
108. Of Those Things That Are Contained in the New Law
109. Of the Necessity of Grace
110. Of the Grace of God as Regards Its Essence
111. Of the Division of Grace
112. Of the Cause of Grace
113. Of the Effects of Grace
114. Of Merit
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FIRST PART OF THE SECOND PART
["I-II," "Prima Secundae"]
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TREATISE ON THE LAST END (QQ. 1-5)
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PROLOGUE

Since, as Damascene states (De Fide Orth. ii, 12), man is said to be
made in God's image, in so far as the image implies "an intelligent
being endowed with free-will and self-movement": now that we have
treated of the exemplar, i.e. God, and of those things which came
forth from the power of God in accordance with His will; it remains
for us to treat of His image, i.e. man, inasmuch as he too is the
principle of his actions, as having free-will and control of his
actions.
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OF MAN'S LAST END
(In Eight Articles)

In this matter we shall consider first the last end of human life;
and secondly, those things by means of which man may advance towards
this end, or stray from the path: for the end is the rule of whatever
is ordained to the end. And since the last end of human life is
stated to be ha