Filial adoption, in making us partakers by Grace in the divine nature, can bestow true merit on us as a result of God's gratuitous Justice. This is our right by grace, the full right of Love, making us "co-heirs" with Christ and worthy of obtaining "the Promised inheritance of eternal life." 60 The merits of our good works are Gifts of the divine Goodness. 61 "Grace has gone before us; now we are given what is due.... Our merits are God's Gifts." 62