Rome says men cannot merit “initial” grace but they can merit any corresponding grace.
And that is not what the Scriptures tell us. Grace is a free gift of God and no man can “merit” it because all men are fallen unless God first regenerates them to “know the things of God,” to repent, to obey and to believe.
Rome, in black and white, takes as its own what belongs to God alone.
I’m just interested in why the citations were cherry-picked.