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IN this onely doe the Schoolemen seeme here to disagree,* 1.1 That some wil haue the act of penance, as also the act of faith and charity, to be onely a disposi∣tion to the remission of sinnes, and not to be any me∣rit (either of worke or congruity) of the forgiuenesse of them: Of this opinion is Io. Capreolus (vpon 2. Sent d. 4. q. 1.) Dominicus a Soto (2. b. of Nature and Grace, c. 4.) But other, and the most, hold those acts to be not onely a disposition towards, but a merit (by congrui∣ty) of our iustification; which opinion is the Masters of Sent. (b. 2. d. 27.) and St. Thomas (vpon 2. d. 27.) of Albertus, S. Bonauenture: Besides, of Scotus, Durandus, Gabriel, and others vpon 2. dist 28. And of the later Writers Andreas Vega (8 b. vpon the Councell of Trent.) Bellarm. ibid. c. 12. p. 185.