Section 2

Section 2

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. THE OCCASION FOR AND ARGUMENT OF THIS WORK

CHAPTER 2. THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL IN MAN IS PROVED FROM THE PRECEPTS ADDRESSED TO HIM BY GOD

CHAPTER 3. SINNERS ARE CONVICTED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO EXCUSE THEMSELVES BY BLAMING GOD, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FREE WILL

CHAPTER 4. THE DIVINE COMMANDS MOST SUITED TO THE WILL, THEMSELVES ILLUSTRATE ITS FREEDOM

CHAPTER 5. IGNORANCE AFFORDS NO EXCUSE THAT WILL FREE THE OFFENDER FROM PUNISHMENT; BUT TO SIN WITH KNOWLEDGE IS A GRAVER THING THAN TO SIN IN IGNORANCE

CHAPTER 6. GOD’S GRACE IS TO BE MAINTAINED AGAINST THE PELAGIANS; THE PELAGIAN HERESY IS NOT AN OLD ONE

CHAPTER 7. GRACE IS NECESSARY ALONG WITH FREE WILL, TO LEAD A GOOD LIFE

CHAPTER 8. CONJUGAL CHASTITY IS ITSELF THE GIFT OF GOD

CHAPTER 9. PRAYING WHEN ENTERING INTO TEMPTATION IS A PROOF OF GRACE

CHAPTER 10. FREE WILL AND GOD’S GRACE ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY COMMENDED

CHAPTER 11. OTHER PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH THE PELAGIANS ABUSE

CHAPTER 12. PAUL PROVES THAT GRACE IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MEN’S MERITS

CHAPTER 13. THE GRACE OF GOD IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MERIT, BUT ITSELF MAKES ALL GOOD DESERT

CHAPTER 14. PAUL FIRST RECEIVED GRACE THAT HE MIGHT WIN THE CROWN

CHAPTER 15. THE PELAGIANS PROFESS THAT THE ONLY GRACE WHICH IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO OUR MERITS, IS THAT OF THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS

CHAPTER 16. PAUL FOUGHT, BUT GOD GAVE THE VICTORY: HE RAN, BUT GOD SHOWED MERCY

CHAPTER 17. THE FAITH THAT HE KEPT WAS THE FREE GIFT OF GOD

CHAPTER 18. FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORKS IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR SALVATION

CHAPTER 19. HOW IS ETERNAL LIFE BOTH A REWARD FOR SERVICE, AND A FREE GIFT OF GRACE?

CHAPTER 20. THE QUESTION ANSWERED: JUSTIFICATION IS GRACE SIMPLY AND ENTIRELY; ETERNAL LIFE IS REWARD, AND GRACE

CHAPTER 21. ETERNAL LIFE IS “GRACE FOR GRACE”

CHAPTER 22. WHO IS THE TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW? THE OLDNESS OF ITS LETTER; THE NEWNESS OF ITS SPIRIT

CHAPTER 23. THE PELAGIANS MAINTAIN THAT THE LAW IS THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH HELPS US NOT TO SIN

CHAPTER 24. THOSE WHO WISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS: “GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS” IS WHAT MAN HAS FROM GOD

CHAPTER 25. THE LAW IS NOT THAT GRACE BY WHICH WE ARE CHRISTIANS, NOR IS OUR NATURE ITSELF

CHAPTER 26. PELAGIANS CONTEND THAT THE GRACE WHICH IS NEITHER THE LAW NOR OUR NATURE, AVAILS ONLY TO REMIT PAST SINS, NOT TO AVOID FUTURE ONES.

CHAPTER 27. GRACE EFFECTS THE FULFILMENT OF THE LAW, THE DELIVERANCE OF NATURE, AND THE SUPPRESSION OF SIN’S DOMINION

CHAPTER 28. FAITH IS THE GIFT OF GOD

CHAPTER 29. GOD IS ABLE TO CONVERT OPPOSING WILLS, AND TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE HEART ITS HARDNESS

CHAPTER 30. THE GRACE BY WHICH THE STONY HEART IS REMOVED IS NOT PRECEDED BY GOOD DESERTS, BUT BY EVIL ONES

CHAPTER 31. FREE WILL HAS ITS FUNCTION IN THE HEART’S CONVERSION; BUT GRACE TOO HAS ITS FUNCTION

CHAPTER 32. IN WHAT SENSE IT IS RIGHTLY SAID THAT, IF WE LIKE, WE MAY KEEP GOD’S COMMANDMENTS

CHAPTER 33. A GOOD WILL MAY BE SMALL AND WEAK; AN AMPLE WILL HAS GREAT LOVE—OPERATING AND COOPERATING GRACE

CHAPTER 34. THE APOSTLE’S EULOGY OF LOVE. CORRECTION IS TO BE ADMINISTERED WITH LOVE

CHAPTER 35. COMMENDATIONS OF LOVE

CHAPTER 36. LOVE COMMENDED BY OUR LORD HIMSELF

CHAPTER 37. THE LOVE WHICH FULFILS THE COMMANDMENTS IS NOT OF OURSELVES, BUT OF GOD

CHAPTER 38. WE WOULD NOT LOVE GOD UNLESS HE FIRST LOVED US. THE APOSTLES CHOSE CHRIST BECAUSE THEY WERE CHOSEN; THEY WERE NOT CHOSEN BECAUSE THEY CHOSE CHRIST

CHAPTER 39. THE SPIRIT OF FEAR IS A GREAT GIFT OF GOD

CHAPTER 40. PELAGIANS ARE IGNORANT IN MAINTAINING THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW COMES FROM GOD, BUT THAT LOVE COMES FROM OURSELVES

CHAPTER 41. THE WILLS OF MEN ARE SO MUCH IN THE POWER OF GOD, THAT HE CAN TURN THEM HOWEVER IT PLEASES HIM

CHAPTER 42. GOD DOES WHATEVER HE WILLS IN THE HEARTS EVEN OF WICKED MEN

CHAPTER 43. GOD OPERATES ON MEN’S HEARTS: TO INCLINE THEIR WILLS HOWEVER HE PLEASES

CHAPTER 44. GRATUITOUS GRACE EXEMPLIFIED IN INFANTS

CHAPTER 45. THE REASON WHY ONE PERSON IS ASSISTED BY GRACE, AND ANOTHER IS NOT, MUST BE REFERRED TO THE SECRET JUDGMENTS OF GOD

CHAPTER 46. UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM MUST BE SOUGHT FROM GOD

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