A Topic of Moral Theology
The things that fall under merit
The things that fall under merit, as treated in Billuart (On the Merit of the Just).
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Merit · Acceptance · God · Goods · Merit, its objects · Promise of God · Relation · State of grace
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Human Acts in…, Third Part: On Human Acts …, Second Question: On the Conditions of Supernatural Merit, nn. ¶1, 194, 195, 196 & 197 (31 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Grace, On the Merit of the Just, On the things that fall under merit, nn. 1–121 (121 passages)
Treated under the broader heading The conditions of condign merit — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)