1. Proof of the First Conclusion

12. The first conclusion is plain from Augustine, and it is in the text [Ps.-Augustine, On True..., n.4 supra]: “Since God is always powerful, he is able to help even in death those whom it pleases; since therefore fruitful penitence is the work not of man but of God, he can inspire it whenever his mercy wants.”

13. It is also plain by reason, that whether interior penitence alone through merit by congruity (if had in extremities) dispose to justification, or whether the sacrament of penitence operate by way of sacrament - if the latter or former is had by anyone in extremities, the same idea of receiving grace is had by him as is also had in another penitent; and consequently grace will be received and so salvation.