Treatise — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis
Treatise I: On the Sacraments in General
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Utility. - This is the common utility of the present treatise: that, by generic accounts concerning the nature, dispensation, and use of the sacraments, it may furnish a certain first information and anticipated knowledge concerning the individual sacraments, which may render plainer and permit more expeditious explanation of the parts which recur in the individual sacraments with some specific notes.
Division of the treatise. - In order we shall speak: On the Nature and Division of the sacraments; On the Minister and the right Administration of the sacraments; On the Subject by whom the same are validly and licitly requested.