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Grace and Free Will

Augustine of Hippo

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Chapters 49
  1. Section 1 ≈ 3 min
  2. Section 2 ≈ 6 min
  3. CHAPTER 1. THE OCCASION FOR AND ARGUMENT OF THIS WORK ≈ 3 min
  4. CHAPTER 2. THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL IN MAN IS PROVED FROM THE PRECEPTS ADDRESSED TO HIM BY GOD ≈ 3 min
  5. CHAPTER 3. SINNERS ARE CONVICTED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO EXCUSE THEMSELVES BY BLAMING GOD, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FREE WILL ≈ 2 min
  6. CHAPTER 4. THE DIVINE COMMANDS MOST SUITED TO THE WILL, THEMSELVES ILLUSTRATE ITS FREEDOM ≈ 6 min
  7. CHAPTER 5. IGNORANCE AFFORDS NO EXCUSE THAT WILL FREE THE OFFENDER FROM PUNISHMENT; BUT TO SIN WITH KNOWLEDGE IS A GRAVE ≈ 6 min
  8. CHAPTER 6. GOD’S GRACE IS TO BE MAINTAINED AGAINST THE PELAGIANS; THE PELAGIAN HERESY IS NOT AN OLD ONE ≈ 4 min
  9. CHAPTER 7. GRACE IS NECESSARY ALONG WITH FREE WILL, TO LEAD A GOOD LIFE ≈ 2 min
  10. CHAPTER 8. CONJUGAL CHASTITY IS ITSELF THE GIFT OF GOD ≈ 4 min
  11. CHAPTER 9. PRAYING WHEN ENTERING INTO TEMPTATION IS A PROOF OF GRACE ≈ 2 min
  12. CHAPTER 10. FREE WILL AND GOD’S GRACE ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY COMMENDED ≈ 3 min
  13. CHAPTER 11. OTHER PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH THE PELAGIANS ABUSE ≈ 3 min
  14. CHAPTER 12. PAUL PROVES THAT GRACE IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MEN’S MERITS ≈ 4 min
  15. CHAPTER 13. THE GRACE OF GOD IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MERIT, BUT ITSELF MAKES ALL GOOD DESERT ≈ 4 min
  16. CHAPTER 14. PAUL FIRST RECEIVED GRACE THAT HE MIGHT WIN THE CROWN ≈ 2 min
  17. CHAPTER 15. THE PELAGIANS PROFESS THAT THE ONLY GRACE WHICH IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO OUR MERITS, IS THAT OF THE FORGIVE ≈ 3 min
  18. CHAPTER 16. PAUL FOUGHT, BUT GOD GAVE THE VICTORY: HE RAN, BUT GOD SHOWED MERCY ≈ 4 min
  19. CHAPTER 17. THE FAITH THAT HE KEPT WAS THE FREE GIFT OF GOD ≈ 2 min
  20. CHAPTER 18. FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORKS IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR SALVATION ≈ 2 min
  21. CHAPTER 19. HOW IS ETERNAL LIFE BOTH A REWARD FOR SERVICE, AND A FREE GIFT OF GRACE? ≈ 2 min
  22. CHAPTER 20. THE QUESTION ANSWERED: JUSTIFICATION IS GRACE SIMPLY AND ENTIRELY; ETERNAL LIFE IS REWARD, AND GRACE ≈ 4 min
  23. CHAPTER 21. ETERNAL LIFE IS “GRACE FOR GRACE” ≈ 4 min
  24. CHAPTER 22. WHO IS THE TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW? THE OLDNESS OF ITS LETTER; THE NEWNESS OF ITS SPIRIT ≈ 4 min
  25. CHAPTER 23. THE PELAGIANS MAINTAIN THAT THE LAW IS THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH HELPS US NOT TO SIN ≈ 3 min
  26. CHAPTER 24. THOSE WHO WISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS: “GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS” IS WHAT MAN HAS FROM GOD ≈ 5 min
  27. CHAPTER 25. THE LAW IS NOT THAT GRACE BY WHICH WE ARE CHRISTIANS, NOR IS OUR NATURE ITSELF ≈ 3 min
  28. CHAPTER 26. PELAGIANS CONTEND THAT THE GRACE WHICH IS NEITHER THE LAW NOR OUR NATURE, AVAILS ONLY TO REMIT PAST SINS, NO ≈ 2 min
  29. CHAPTER 27. GRACE EFFECTS THE FULFILMENT OF THE LAW, THE DELIVERANCE OF NATURE, AND THE SUPPRESSION OF SIN’S DOMINION ≈ 2 min
  30. CHAPTER 28. FAITH IS THE GIFT OF GOD ≈ 3 min
  31. CHAPTER 29. GOD IS ABLE TO CONVERT OPPOSING WILLS, AND TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE HEART ITS HARDNESS ≈ 3 min
  32. CHAPTER 30. THE GRACE BY WHICH THE STONY HEART IS REMOVED IS NOT PRECEDED BY GOOD DESERTS, BUT BY EVIL ONES ≈ 4 min
  33. CHAPTER 31. FREE WILL HAS ITS FUNCTION IN THE HEART’S CONVERSION; BUT GRACE TOO HAS ITS FUNCTION ≈ 4 min
  34. CHAPTER 32. IN WHAT SENSE IT IS RIGHTLY SAID THAT, IF WE LIKE, WE MAY KEEP GOD’S COMMANDMENTS ≈ 6 min
  35. CHAPTER 33. A GOOD WILL MAY BE SMALL AND WEAK; AN AMPLE WILL HAS GREAT LOVE—OPERATING AND COOPERATING GRACE ≈ 4 min
  36. CHAPTER 34. THE APOSTLE’S EULOGY OF LOVE. CORRECTION IS TO BE ADMINISTERED WITH LOVE ≈ 5 min
  37. CHAPTER 35. COMMENDATIONS OF LOVE ≈ 2 min
  38. CHAPTER 36. LOVE COMMENDED BY OUR LORD HIMSELF ≈ 2 min
  39. CHAPTER 37. THE LOVE WHICH FULFILS THE COMMANDMENTS IS NOT OF OURSELVES, BUT OF GOD ≈ 3 min
  40. CHAPTER 38. WE WOULD NOT LOVE GOD UNLESS HE FIRST LOVED US. THE APOSTLES CHOSE CHRIST BECAUSE THEY WERE CHOSEN; THEY WER ≈ 4 min
  41. CHAPTER 39. THE SPIRIT OF FEAR IS A GREAT GIFT OF GOD ≈ 3 min
  42. CHAPTER 40. PELAGIANS ARE IGNORANT IN MAINTAINING THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW COMES FROM GOD, BUT THAT LOVE COMES FROM ≈ 3 min
  43. CHAPTER 41. THE WILLS OF MEN ARE SO MUCH IN THE POWER OF GOD, THAT HE CAN TURN THEM HOWEVER IT PLEASES HIM ≈ 8 min
  44. CHAPTER 42. GOD DOES WHATEVER HE WILLS IN THE HEARTS EVEN OF WICKED MEN ≈ 9 min
  45. CHAPTER 43. GOD OPERATES ON MEN’S HEARTS: TO INCLINE THEIR WILLS HOWEVER HE PLEASES ≈ 2 min
  46. CHAPTER 44. GRATUITOUS GRACE EXEMPLIFIED IN INFANTS ≈ 6 min
  47. CHAPTER 45. THE REASON WHY ONE PERSON IS ASSISTED BY GRACE, AND ANOTHER IS NOT, MUST BE REFERRED TO THE SECRET JUDGMENTS ≈ 4 min
  48. CHAPTER 46. UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM MUST BE SOUGHT FROM GOD ≈ 2 min
  49. Section 49 ≈ 2 min
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
LanguageEnglish
EraClassic
CategoriesTheology · Early Church
Length49 chapters · ≈ 2 h 56 min read
FormatsWeb Book · EPUB
Status Public Domain

Public Domain.

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