Dissertation II — On charity towards God

The last place among the theological virtues charity occupies, because it is their end and goal. This is the bond of Christian perfection, without which all the rest profit nothing, and with which all things profit unto eternal life. But — what cannot be sufficiently lamented — not a few Casuists have attempted, by their lax opinions, as it were to extinguish this virtue above the rest, and to reduce its exercise almost to nothing, as will become plain from the following theses.