Npnf1–05 Contents
NPNF1–05 CONTENTS
NPNF1–05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
SAINT AUGUSTIN’S ANTI-PELAGIAN WORKS
A Treatise On The Merits And Forgiveness Of Sins, And On The Baptism Of Infants
A Treatise On The Spirit And The Letter
A Treatise On Nature And Grace
A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection In Righteousness
A Work On The Proceedings Of Pelagius
A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin
A Treatise On The Soul And Its Origin
A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians
A Treatise On Grace And Free Will
A Treatise On Rebuke And Grace
A Treatise On The Predestination Of The Saints
A Treatise On The Gift Of Perseverance
NPNF1–05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
SAINT AUGUSTIN’S ANTI-PELAGIAN WORKS
A Treatise On The Merits And Forgiveness Of Sins, And On The Baptism Of Infants
Chapter 1 [I.]
Introductory, in the Shape of an Inscription to His Friend Marcellinus
Chapter 2 [II.]
If Adam Had Not Sinned, He Would Never Have Died
Chapter 3 [III.]
It is One Thing to Be Mortal, Another Thing to Be Subject to Death
Chapter 4 [IV.]
Even Bodily Death is from Sin
Chapter 6 [VI.]
How It is that the Body Dead Because of Sin
Chapter 8 [VIII.]
Bodily Death from Adam’s Sin
Chapter 9 [IX.]
Sin Passes on to All Men by Natural Descent, and Not Merely by Imitation
Chapter 10
The Analogy of Grace
Chapter 11 [X.]
Distinction Between Actual and Original Sin
Chapter 12
The Law Could Not Take Away Sin
Chapter 13 [XI.]
Meaning of the Apostle’s Phrase “The Reign of Death.”
Chapter 14
Superabundance of Grace
Chapter 15 [XII.]
The One Sin Common to All Men
Chapter 16 [XIII.]
How Death is by One and Life by One
Chapter 17
Whom Sinners Imitate
Chapter 18
Only Christ Justifies
Chapter 20
Original Sin Alone is Contracted by Natural Birth
Chapter 22 [XVII.]
To Infants Personal Sin is Not to Be Attributed
Chapter 24 [XIX.]
Infants Saved as Sinners
Chapter 26 [XX.]
No One, Except He Be Baptized, Rightly Comes to the Table of the Lord
Chapter 27
Infants Must Feed on Christ
Chapter 28
Baptized Infants, of the Faithful; Unbaptized, of the Lost
Chapter 29 [XXI.]
It is an Inscrutable Mystery Why Some are Saved, and Others Not
Chapter 30
Why One is Baptized and Another Not, Not Otherwise Inscrutable
Chapter 32
The Case of Certain Idiots and Simpletons
Chapter 33
Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer Even of Infants
Chapter 35
Unless Infants are Baptized, They Remain in Darkness
Chapter 36
Infants Not Enlightened as Soon as They are Born
Chapter 37
How God Enlightens Every Person
Chapter 38
What “Lighteth” Means
Chapter 39 [XXVI.]
The Conclusion Drawn, that All are Involved in Original Sin
Chapter 40 [XXVII.]
A Collection of Scripture Testimonies. From the Gospels
Chapter 41
From the First Epistle of Peter
Chapter 42
From the First Epistle of John
Chapter 43
From the Epistle to the Romans
Chapter 44
From the Epistles to the Corinthians
Chapter 45
From the Epistle to the Galatians
Chapter 46
From the Epistle to the Ephesians
Chapter 47
From the Epistle to the Colossians
Chapter 48
From the Epistles to Timothy
Chapter 49
From the Epistle to Titus
Chapter 50
From the Epistle to the Hebrews
Chapter 51
From the Apocalypse
Chapter 52
From the Acts of the Apostles
Chapter 53
The Utility of the Books of the Old Testament
Chapter 54
By the Sacrifices of the Old Testament, Men Were Convinced of Sins and Led to the Saviour
Chapter 56
No One is Reconciled to God Except Through Christ
Chapter 58 [XXX.]
In What Respect the Pelagians Regarded Baptism as Necessary for Infants
Chapter 59
The Context of Their Chief Text
Chapter 62 [XXXIII.]
No One Can Be Reconciled to God, Except by Christ
Chapter 63 [XXXIV.]
The Form, or Rite, of Baptism. Exorcism
Chapter 64
A Twofold Mistake Respecting Infants
Chapter 65 [XXXV.]
In Infants There is No Sin of Their Own Commission
Chapter 66
Infants’ Faults Spring from Their Sheer Ignorance
Chapter 67 [XXXVI.]
On the Ignorance of Infants, and Whence It Arises
Chapter 69 [XXXVIII.]
The Ignorance and the Infirmity of an Infant
Chapter 1 [I.]
What Has Thus Far Been Dwelt On; And What is to Be Treated in This Book
Chapter 5 [V.]
The Will of Man Requires the Help of God
Chapter 8 [VII.]
(2) Whether There is in This World a Man Without Sin
Chapter 10 [VIII.]
Perfection, When to Be Realized
Chapter 11 [IX.]
An Objection of the Pelagians: Why Does Not a Righteous Man Beget a Righteous Man?
Chapter 12 [X.]
He Reconciles Some Passages of Scripture
Chapter 13
A Subterfuge of the Pelagians
Chapter 14
Job Was Not Without Sin
Chapter 15
Carnal Generation Condemned on Account of Original Sin
Chapter 17 [XII.]
No One Righteous in All Things
Chapter 18 [XIII.]
Perfect Human Righteousness is Imperfect
Chapter 19
Zacharias and Elisabeth, Sinners
Chapter 20
Paul Worthy to Be the Prince of the Apostles, and Yet a Sinner
Chapter 21 [XIV.]
All Righteous Men Sinners
Chapter 23 [XXI.]
Why God Prescribes What He Knows Cannot Be Observed
Chapter 24
An Objection of the Pelagians. The Apostle Paul Was Not Free From Sin So Long as He Lived
Chapter 25
God Punishes Both in Wrath and in Mercy
Chapter 26 [XVII.]
(3) Why No One in This Life is Without Sin
Chapter 27
The Divine Remedy for Pride
Chapter 28 [XVIII.]
A Good Will Comes from God
Chapter 29
A Subterfuge of the Pelagians
Chapter 31
Grace is Given to Some Men in Mercy; Is Withheld from Others in Justice and Truth
Chapter 32
God’s Sovereignity in His Grace
Chapter 33
Through Grace We Have Both the Knowledge of Good, and the Delight Which It Affords
Chapter 35 [XXI.]
Adam and Eve; Obedience Most Strongly Enjoined by God on Man
Chapter 36 [XXII.]
Man’s State Before the Fall
Chapter 37 [XXIII.]
The Corruption of Nature is by Sin, Its Renovation is by Christ
Chapter 39 [XXV.]
An Objection of Pelagians
Chapter 40
An Argument Anticipated
Chapter 41
Children of Believers are Called “Clean” By the Apostle
Chapter 42
Sanctification Manifold; Sacrament of Catechumens
Chapter 43 [XXVII.]
Why the Children of the Baptized Should Be Baptized
Chapter 44
An Objection of the Pelagians
Chapter 46
Guilt May Be Taken Away But Concupiscence Remain
Chapter 49 [XXX.]
An Objection of the Pelagians
Chapter 50 [XXXI.]
Why It is that Death Itself is Not Abolished, Along with Sin, by Baptism
Chapter 51
Why the Devil is Said to Hold the Power and Dominion of Death
Chapter 52 [XXXII.]
Why Christ, After His Resurrection, Withdrew His Presence from the World
Chapter 53 [XXXIII.]
An Objection of the Pelagians
Chapter 54 [XXXIV.]
Why Punishment is Still Inflicted, After Sin Has Been Forgiven
Chapter 56
The Case of David, in Illustration
Chapter 57 [XXXV.]
Turn to Neither Hand
Chapter 58 [XXXVI.]
”Likeness of Sinful Flesh” Implies the Reality
Chapter 1 [I.]
Pelagius Esteemed a Holy Man; His Expositions on Saint Paul
Chapter 2 [II.]
Pelagius’ Objection; Infants Reckoned Among the Number of Believers and the Faithful
Chapter 3
Pelagius Makes God Unjust
Chapter 6
Why Pelagius Does Not Speak in His Own Person
Chapter 7 [IV.]
Proof of Original Sin in Infants
Chapter 8
Jesus is the Saviour Even of Infants
Chapter 9
The Ambiguity of “Adam is the Figure of Him to Come.”
Chapter 10 [V.]
He Shows that Cyprian Had Not Doubted the Original Sin of Infants
Chapter 11
The Ancients Assumed Original Sin
Chapter 12 [VI.]
The Universal Consensus Respecting Original Sin
Chapter 13 [VII.]
The Error of Jovinianus Did Not Extend So Far
Chapter 15 [VIII.]
We All Sinned Adam’s Sin
Chapter 17 [IX.]
Christians Do Not Always Beget Christian, Nor the Pure, Pure Children
Chapter 18 [X.]
Is the Soul Derived by Natural Propagation?
Chapter 19 [XI.]
Sin and Death in Adam, Righteousness and Life in Christ
Chapter 20
The Sting of Death, What?
Chapter 22 [XIII.]
We Ought to Be Anxious to Secure the Baptism of Infants
A Treatise On The Spirit And The Letter
Book II. Chap. 37, On the Following Treatise, “De spiritu et littera.”
A Treatise on the spirit and the letter
Chapter 2 [II.]
The Examples Apposite
Chapter 3
Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin
Chapter 6 [IV.]
The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is “The Letter that Killeth.”
Chapter 7 [V.]
What is Proposed to Be Here Treated
Chapter 8
Romans Interprets Corinthians
Chapter 9 [VI]
Through the Law Sin Has Abounded
Chapter 10
Christ the True Healer
Chapter 11 [VII.]
From What Fountain Good Works Flow
Chapter 12
Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace
Chapter 14
In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification
Chapter 15 [IX.]
The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets
Chapter 16 [X.]
How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man
Chapter 17
The Exclusion of Boasting
Chapter 18 [XI.]
Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
Chapter 19 [XII]
The Knowledge of God Through the Creation
Chapter 20
The Law Without Grace
Chapter 21 [XIII.]
The Law of Works and the Law of Faith
Chapter 22
No Man Justified by Works
Chapter 23 [XIV.]
How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present
Chapter 24
The Passage in Corinthians
Chapter 25
The Passage in Romans
Chapter 26
No Fruit Good Except It Grow from the Root of Love
Chapter 27 [XV.]
Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New
Chapter 28 [XVI]
Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God
Chapter 29 [XVII.]
A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law
Chapter 30
The New Law Written Within
Chapter 31 [XVIII.]
The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness
Chapter 32 [XIX.]
The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace
Chapter 33
The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament
Chapter 35 [XX.]
The Old Law; The New Law
Chapter 36 [XXI.]
The Law Written in Our Hearts
Chapter 37 [XXII.]
The Eternal Reward
Chapter 40
How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace
Chapter 42 [XXV.]
Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments
Chapter 44
The Answer Is, that the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New Covenant
Chapter 46
How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet
Chapter 47 [XXVII.]
The Law “Being Done by Nature” Means, Done by Nature as Restored by Grace
Chapter 48
The Image of God is Not Wholly Blotted Out in These Unbelievers; Venial Sins
Chapter 49
The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant
Chapter 50 [XXIX.]
Righteousness is the Gift of God
Chapter 51
Faith the Ground of All Righteousness
Chapter 52 [XXX.]
Grace Establishes Free Will
Chapter 53 [XXXI.]
Volition and Ability
Chapter 54
Whether Faith Be in a Man’s Own Power
Chapter 55 [XXXII.]
What Faith is Laudable
Chapter 56
The Faith of Those Who are Under the Law Different from the Faith of Others
Chapter 57 [XXXIII.]
Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
Chapter 58
The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power
Chapter 59
Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God
Chapter 60 [XXXIV.]
The Will to Believe is from God
Chapter 61 [XXXV.]
Conclusion of the Work
Chapter 62
He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him
Chapter 64 [XXXVI.]
When the Commandment to Love is Fulfilled
Chapter 65
In What Sense a Sinless Righteousness in This Life Can Be Asserted
Chapter 66
Although Perfect Righteousness Be Not Found Here on Earth, It is Still Not Impossible
A Treatise On Nature And Grace
Book II. Chap. 42, On the Following Treatise, “De natura et gratia.”
A Treatise On Nature And Grace
Chapter 1 [I.]
The Occasion of Publishing This Work; What God’s Righteousness is
Chapter 3 [III.]
Nature Was Created Sound and Whole; It Was Afterwards Corrupted by Sin
Chapter 5 [V.]
It Was a Matter of Justice that All Should Be Condemned
Chapter 6 [VI.]
The Pelagians Have Very Strong and Active Minds
Chapter 8
A Distinction Drawn by Pelagius Between the Possible and Actual
Chapter 9 [VIII.]
Even They Who Were Not Able to Be Justified are Condemned
Chapter 11 [X.]
Grace Subtly Acknowledged by Pelagius
Chapter 13 [XII.]
The Scope and Purpose of the Law’s Threatenings; “Perfect Wayfarers.”
Chapter 14 [XIII.]
Refutation of Pelagius
Chapter 15 [XIV.]
Not Everything [of Doctrinal Truth] is Written in Scripture in So Many Words
Chapter 16 [XV.]
Pelagius Corrupts a Passage of the Apostle James by Adding a Note of Interrogation
Chapter 17 [XVI.]
Explanation of This Text Continued
Chapter 18 [XVII.]
Who May Be Said to Be in the Flesh
Chapter 19
Sins of Ignorance; To Whom Wisdom is Given by God on Their Requesting It
Chapter 20 [XVIII.]
What Prayer Pelagius Would Admit to Be Necessary
Chapter 21 [XIX.]
Pelagius Denies that Human Nature Has Been Depraved or Corrupted by Sin
Chapter 22 [XX.]
How Our Nature Could Be Vitiated by Sin, Even Though It Be Not a Substance
Chapter 23 [XXI.]
Adam Delivered by the Mercy of Christ
Chapter 24 [XXII.]
Sin and the Penalty of Sin the Same
Chapter 26 [XXIV.]
Christ Died of His Own Power and Choice
Chapter 27
Even Evils, Through God’s Mercy, are of Use
Chapter 30 [XXVII.]
Sin is Removed by Sin
Chapter 32 [XXVIII.]
God Forsakes Us to Some Extent that We May Not Grow Proud
Chapter 33 [XXIX.]
Not Every Sin is Pride. How Pride is the Commencement of Every Sin
Chapter 34 [XXX.]
A Man’s Sin is His Own, But He Needs Grace for His Cure
Chapter 37 [XXXIII.]
Being Wholly Without Sin Does Not Put Man on an Equality with God
Chapter 39
Pelagius Glorifies God as Creator at the Expense of God as Saviour
Chapter 41
Whether Holy Men Have Died Without Sin
Chapter 43 [XXXVII.]
Why Scripture Has Not Mentioned the Sins of All
Chapter 44
Pelagius Argues that Abel Was Sinless
Chapter 46 [XXXIX.]
Shall We Follow Scripture, or Add to Its Declarations?
Chapter 47 [XL.]
For What Pelagius Thought that Christ is Necessary to Us
Chapter 48 [XLI.]
How the Term “All” Is to Be Understood
Chapter 50 [XLIII.]
God Commands No Impossibilities
Chapter 52
The Whole Discussion is About Grace
Chapter 53 [XLV.]
Pelagius Distinguishes Between a Power and Its Use
Chapter 54 [XLVI.]
There is No Incompatibility Between Necessity and Free Will
Chapter 55 [XLVII.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 56 [XLVIII.]
The Assistance of Grace in a Perfect Nature
Chapter 58 [L.]
Even Pious and God-Fearing Men Resist Grace
Chapter 59 [LI.]
In What Sense Pelagius Attributed to God’s Grace the Capacity of Not Sinning
Chapter 60 [LII.]
Pelagius Admits “Contrary Flesh” In the Unbaptized
Chapter 61 [LIII.]
Paul Asserts that the Flesh is Contrary Even in the Baptized
Chapter 63 [LIV.]
Does God Create Contraries?
Chapter 64
Pelagius’ Admission as Regards the Unbaptized, Fatal
Chapter 65 [LV.]
”This Body of Death,” So Called from Its Defect, Not from Its Substance
Chapter 66
The Works, Not the Substance, of the “Flesh” Opposed to the “Spirit.”
Chapter 67 [LVII.]
Who May Be Said to Be Under the Law
Chapter 68 [LVIII.]
Despite the Devil, Man May, by God’s Help, Be Perfected
Chapter 69 [LIX.]
Pelagius Puts Nature in the Place of Grace
Chapter 70 [LX.]
Whether Any Man is Without Sin in This Life
Chapter 72 [LXI.]
Hilary. The Pure in Heart Blessed. The Doing and Perfecting of Righteousness
Chapter 73
He Meets Pelagius with Another Passage from Hilary
Chapter 75
Augustin Adduces in Reply Some Other Passages of Ambrose
Chapter 76 [LXIV.]
John of Constantinople
Chapter 79 [LXVI.]
A Certain Necessity of Sinning
Chapter 80 [LXVII.]
Augustin Himself. Two Methods Whereby Sins, Like Diseases, are Guarded Against
Chapter 81
Augustin Quotes Himself on Free Will
Chapter 82 [LXVIII.]
How to Exhort Men to Faith, Repentance, and Advancement
Chapter 83 [LXIX.]
God Enjoins No Impossibility, Because All Things are Possible and Easy to Love
Chapter 84 [LXX.]
The Degrees of Love are Also Degrees of Holiness
A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection In Righteousness
A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection In Righteousness
Chapter II
(1.) The First Breviate of Coelestius
Chapter III
(5.) The Fifth Breviate
Chapter IV
(9.) The Ninth Breviate
Chapter V
(11.) The Eleventh Breviate
Chapter VI
(12.) The Twelfth Breviate
Chapter VII
(16.) The Sixteenth Breviate
Chapter IX
(20.) Who May Be Said to Walk Without Spot; Damnable and Venial Sins
Chapter XII
(29.) The Second Passage. Who May Be Said to Abstain from Every Evil Thing
Chapter XV
(34.) The Opposing Passages
Chapter XVI
(37.) The Sixth Passage
Chapter XIX
(40.) The Ninth Passage
A Work On The Proceedings Of Pelagius
Book II. Chap. 45, On the Following Treatise, “De gestis pelagii.”
A Work On The Proceedings Of Pelagius
Chapter 2 [I.]
The First Item in the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Answer
Chapter 3
Discussion of Pelagius’ First Answer
Chapter 4 [II.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 5 [III.]
The Second Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer
Chapter 6
Pelagius’ Answer Examined
Chapter 9
The Third Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer
Chapter 12 [IV.]
The Fourth Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer
Chapter 13 [V.]
The Fifth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer
Chapter 16 [VI.]
The Sixth Item of the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Reply
Chapter 17
Examination of the Sixth Charge and Answers
Chapter 20
The Same Continued. Pelagius Acknowledges the Doctrine of Grace in Deceptive Terms
Chapter 21 [VIII.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 21 [IX.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 24
Pelagius’ Answer to the Charges Brought Together Under the Seventh Item
Chapter 25
The Pelagians Falsely Pretended that the Eastern Churches Were on Their Side
Chapter 26
The Accusations in the Seventh Item, Which Pelagius Confessed
Chapter 27 [XII.]
The Eighth Item in the Accusation
Chapter 28
Pelagius’ Reply to the Eighth Item of Accusation
Chapter 29 [XIII.]
The Ninth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Reply
Chapter 31
Remarks on the Tenth Item
Chapter 32
The Eleventh Item of the Accusation
Chapter 33
Discussion of the Eleventh Item Continued
Chapter 36
The Same Continued. The Monk Pelagius. Grace is Conferred on the Unworthy
Chapter 37
The Same Continued. John, Bishop of Jerusalem, and His Examination
Chapter 38 [XV.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 39 [XVI.]
The Same Continued. Heros and Lazarus; Orosius
Chapter 40 [XVII.]
The Same Continued
Chapter 43 [XIX.]
The Answer of the Monk Pelagius and His Profession of Faith
Chapter 44 [XX.]
The Acquittal of Pelagius
Chapter 45 [XXI.]
Pelagius’ Acquittal Becomes Suspected
Chapter 46 [XXII.]
How Pelagius Became Known to Augustin; Coelestius Condemned at Carthage
Chapter 49 [XXV.]
Pelagius’ Behaviour Contrasted with that of the Writers of the Letter
Chapter 51 [XXVI.]
The Nature of Augustin’s Letter to Pelagius
Chapter 52 [XXVII. And XXVIII.]
The Text of the Letter
Chapter 53 [XXIX.]
Pelagius’ Use of Recommendations
Chapter 55
Pelagius’ Letter Discussed
Chapter 56 [XXXI.]
Is Pelagius Sincere?
Chapter 59 [XXXIV.]
Although Pelagius Was Acquitted, His Heresy Was Condemned
Chapter 60 [XXXV.]
The Synod’s Condemnation of His Doctrines
Chapter 64
How the Bishops Cleared Pelagius of Those Charges
Chapter 65
Recapitulation of What Pelagius Condemned
A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin
Book II. Chap. 50, On the Following Treatise, “De gratia christi, et de peccato originali.”
A Treatise On The Grace Of Christ, And On Original Sin
Chapter 3 [III.]
Grace According to the Pelagians
Chapter 4
Pelagius’ System of Faculties
Chapter 5 [IV.]
Pelagius’ Own Account of the Faculties, Quoted
Chapter 6 [V.]
Pelagius and Paul of Different Opinions
Chapter 7 [VI.]
Pelagius Posits God’s Aid Only for Our “Capacity.”
Chapter 9 [VIII.]
The Law One Thing, Grace Another. The Utility of the Law
Chapter 10 [IX.]
What Purpose the Law Subserves
Chapter 11 [X.]
Pelagius’ Definition of How God Helps Us: “He Promises Us Future Glory.”
Chapter 12 [XI.]
The Same Continued: “He Reveals Wisdom.”
Chapter 13 [XII.]
Grace Causes Us to Do
Chapter 14 [XII.]
The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law
Chapter 15 [XIV.]
He Who Has Been Taught by Grace Actually Comes to Christ
Chapter 16 [XV.]
We Need Divine Aid in the Use of Our Powers. Illustration from Sight
Chapter 18 [XVII.]
He Discovers the Reason of Pelagius’ Hesitation So to Say
Chapter 19 [XVIII.]
The Two Roots of Action, Love and Cupidity; And Each Brings Forth Its Own Fruit
Chapter 20 [XIX.]
How a Man Makes a Good or a Bad Tree
Chapter 21 [XX.]
Love the Root of All Good Things; Cupidity, of All Evil Ones
Chapter 22 [XXI.]
Love is a Good Will
Chapter 23 [XXII.]
Pelagius’ Double Dealing Concerning the Ground of the Conferrence of Grace
Chapter 24
Pelagius Places Free Will at the Basis of All Turning to God for Grace
Chapter 25 [XXIV.]
God by His Wonderful Power Works in Our Hearts Good Dispositions of Our Will
Chapter 27 [XXVI.]
What True Grace Is, and Wherefore Given. Merits Do Not Precede Grace
Chapter 28 [XXVII.]
Pelagius Teaches that Satan May Be Resisted Without the Help of the Grace of God
Chapter 31 [XXX.]
Pelagius and Coelestius Nowhere Really Acknowledge Grace
Chapter 35 [XXXII.]
Pelagius Believes that Infants Have No Sin to Be Remitted in Baptism
Chapter 36 [XXXIII.]
Coelestius Openly Declares Infants to Have No Original Sin
Chapter 37 [XXXIV.]
Pelagius Nowhere Admits the Need of Divine Help for Will and Action
Chapter 38 [XXXV.]
A Definition of the Grace of Christ by Pelagius
Chapter 39 [XXXVI]
A Letter of Pelagius Unknown to Augustin
Chapter 40 [XXXVII]
The Help of Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Mere Revelation of Teaching
Chapter 41
Restoration of Nature Understood by Pelagius as Forgiveness of Sins
Chapter 42 [XXXVIII.]
Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Remission of Sins and the Example of Christ
Chapter 44 [XL.]
Pelagius Once More Guards Himself Against the Necessity of Grace
Chapter 45 [XLI.]
To What Purpose Pelagius Thought Prayers Ought to Be Offered
Chapter 46 [XLII]
Pelagius Professes to Respect the Catholic Authors
Chapter 47 [XLIII.]
Ambrose Most Highly Praised by Pelagius
Chapter 48 [XLIV]
Ambrose is Not in Agreement with Pelagius
Chapter 49 [XLV.]
Ambrose Teaches with What Eye Christ Turned and Looked Upon Peter
Chapter 50
Ambrose Teaches that All Men Need God’s Help
Chapter 52 [XLVII.]
If Pelagius Agrees with Ambrose, Augustin Has No Controversy with Him
Chapter 53 [XLVIII.]
In What Sense Some Men May Be Said to Live Without Sin in the Present Life
Chapter 54 [XLIX.]
Ambrose Teaches that No One is Sinless in This World
Chapter 55 [L.]
Ambrose Witnesses that Perfect Purity is Impossible to Human Nature
Chapter 1 [I.]
Caution Needed in Attending to Pelagius’ Deliverances on Infant Baptism
Chapter 3 [III.]
Part of the Proceedings of the Council of Carthage Against Coelestius
Chapter 4
Coelestius Concedes Baptism for Infants, Without Affirming Original Sin
Chapter 5 [V.]
Coelestius’ Book Which Was Produced in the Proceedings at Rome
Chapter 6 [VI.]
Coelestius the Disciple is In This Work Bolder Than His Master
Chapter 7
Pope Zosimus Kindly Excuses Him
Chapter 8 [VII.]
Coelestius Condemned by Zosimus
Chapter 10 [IX.]
The Judgment of Innocent Respecting the Proceedings in Palestine
Chapter 11 [X.]
How that Pelagius Deceived the Synod of Palestine
Chapter 12 [XI.]
A Portion of the Proceedings of the Synod of Palestine in the Cause of Pelagius
Chapter 13 [XII.]
Coelestius the Bolder Heretic; Pelagius the More Subtle
Chapter 16 [XV.]
Pelagius’ Fraudulent and Crafty Excuses
Chapter 17
How Pelagius Deceived His Judges
Chapter 18 [XVII.]
The Condemnation of Pelagius
Chapter 20
Pelagius Provides a Refuge for His Falsehood in Ambiguous Subterfuges
Chapter 21 [XIX.]
Pelagius Avoids the Question as to Why Baptism is Necessary for Infants
Chapter 22 [XX.]
Another Instance of Pelagius’ Ambiguity
Chapter 23 [XXI.]
What He Means by Our Birth to an “Uncertain” Life
Chapter 24
Pelagius’ Long Residence at Rome
Chapter 25 [XXII.]
The Condemnation of Pelagius and Coelestius
Chapter 27 [XXIII.]
On Questions Outside the Faith—What They Are, and Instances of the Same
Chapter 28 [XXIV.]
The Heresy of Pelagius and Coelestius Aims at the Very Foundations of Our Faith
Chapter 30 [XXVI]
Pelagius and Coelestius Deny that the Ancient Saints Were Saved by Christ
Chapter 31
Christ’s Incarnation Was of Avail to the Fathers, Even Though It Had Not Yet Happened
Chapter 33 [XVIII.]
How Christ is Our Mediator
Chapter 34 [XXIX.]
No Man Ever Saved Save by Christ
Chapter 35 [XXX.]
Why the Circumcision of Infants Was Enjoined Under Pain of So Great a Punishment
Chapter 37 [XXXII.]
In What Sense Christ is Called “Sin.”
Chapter 38 [XXXIII.]
Original Sin Does Not Render Marriage Evil
Chapter 39 [XXXIV.]
Three Things Good and Laudable in Matrimony
Chapter 41 [XXXVI.]
Lust and Travail Come from Sin. Whence Our Members Became a Cause of Shame
Chapter 44 [XXXIX.]
Even the Children of the Regenerate Born in Sin. The Effect of Baptism
Chapter 45
Man’s Deliverance Suited to the Character of His Captivity
Chapter 46
Difficulty of Believing Original Sin. Man’s Vice is a Beast’s Nature
Chapter 47 [XLI.]
Sentences from Ambrose in Favour of Original Sin
Chapter 48
Pelagius Rightly Condemned and Really Opposed by Ambrose
Book II. Chap. 53, On the Following Treatise, “De nuptiis et concupiscentia.”
A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius
Chapter 1
Concerning the Argument of This Treatise
Chapter 2. [II.]
Why This Treatise Was Addressed to Valerius
Chapter 3 [III.]
Conjugal Chastity the Gift of God
Chapter 8 [VII.]
The Evil of Lust Does Not Take Away the Good of Marriage
Chapter 15
The Teaching of the Apostle on This Subject
Chapter 18 [XVI.]
Continence Better Than Marriage; But Marriage Better Than Fornication
Chapter 19 [XVII.]
Blessing of Matrimony
Chapter 20 [XVIII]
Why Children of Wrath are Born of Holy Matrimony
Chapter 24
Lust and Shame Come from Sin; The Law of Sin; The Shamelessness of the Cynics
Chapter 30 [XXVII.]
The Evil Desires of Concupiscence; We Ought to Wish that They May Not Be
Chapter 31 [XXVIII.]
Who is the Man that Can Say, “It is No More I that Do It”?
Chapter 32
When Good Will Be Perfectly Done
Chapter 33 [XXX.]
True Freedom Comes with Willing Delight in God’s Law
Chapter 34
How Concupiscence Made a Captive of the Apostle; What the Law of Sin Was to the Apostle
Chapter 35 [XXXI.]
The Flesh, Carnal Affection
Chapter 36
Even Now While We Still Have Concupiscence We May Be Safe in Christ
Preliminary Notes On The Second Book
Chapter 1 [I.]
Introductory Statement
Chapter 8
Augustin Refutes the Passage Adduced Above
Chapter 10 [IV.]
In What Manner the Adversary’s Cavils Must Be Refuted
Chapter 11
The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin
Chapter 12
Eve’s Name Means Life, and is a Great Sacrament of the Church
Chapter 13
The Pelagian Argument to Show that the Devil Has No Rights in the Fruits of Marriage
Chapter 14 [V.]
Concupiscence Alone, in Marriage, is Not of God
Chapter 16 [VI.]
It is Not of Us, But Our Sins, that the Devil is the Author
Chapter 19 [VIII.]
The Pelagians Misunderstand “Seed” In Scripture
Chapter 20
Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed
Chapter 21 [IX.]
It is the Good God That Gives Fruitfulness, and the Devil That Corrupts the Fruit
Chapter 22
Shall We Be Ashamed of What We Do, or of What God Does?
Chapter 24 [XI.]
What Covenant of God the New-Born Babe Breaks. What Was the Value of Circumcision
Chapter 25 [XII.]
Augustin Not the Deviser of Original Sin
Chapter 26 [XIII.]
The Child in No Sense Formed by Concupiscence
Chapter 28 [XIV.]
Augustin’s Answer to This Argument. Its Dealing with Scripture
Chapter 29
The Same Continued. Augustin Also Asserts that God Forms Man at Birth
Chapter 30 [XV.]
The Case of Abimelech and His House Examined
Chapter 31 [XVI.]
Why God Proceeds to Create Human Beings, Who He Knows Will Be Born in Sin
Chapter 32 [XVII.]
God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates
Chapter 33 [XVIII.]
Though God Makes Us, We Perish Unless He Re-makes Us in Christ
Chapter 36 [XXI.]
God Made Nature Good: the Saviour Restores It When Corrupted
Chapter 39 [XXIV.]
Man Born of Whatever Parentage is Sinful and Capable of Redemption
Chapter 40 [XXV.]
Augustin Declines the Dilemma Offered Him
Chapter 43
The Good Tree in the Gospel that Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Does Not Mean Marriage
Chapter 45
Answer to This Argument: The Apostle Says We All Sinned in One
Chapter 47
The Scriptures Repeatedly Teach Us that All Sin in One
Chapter 48
Original Sin Arose from Adam’s Depraved Will. Whence the Corrupt Will Sprang
Chapter 49 [XXIX.]
In Infants Nature is of God, and the Corruption of Nature of the Devil
Chapter 52 [XXX.]
Sin Was the Origin of All Shameful Concupiscence
Chapter 53 [XXXI.]
Concupiscence Need Not Have Been Necessary for Fruitfulness
Chapter 54 [XXXII.]
How Marriage is Now Different Since the Existence of Sin
Chapter 55 [XXXIII.]
Lust is a Disease; The Word “Passion” In the Ecclesiastical Sense
Chapter 57 [XXXIV.]
The Great Sin of the First Man
Chapter 60
Let Not the Pelagians Indulge Themselves in a Cruel Defence of Infants
A Treatise On The Soul And Its Origin
Book II. Chap. 56, On the Following Treatise, “De anima et ejus origine.”
A Treatise On The Soul And Its Origin
Book I
Addressed to Renatus, the Monk
Chapter 3 [III]
The Eloquence of Vincentius, Its Dangers and Its Tolerableness
Chapter 5 [V.]
Another of Victor’s Errors, that the Soul is Corporeal
Chapter 8 [VIII.]
Victor’s Erroneous Opinion, that the Soul Deserved to Become Sinful
Chapter 9
Victor Utterly Unable to Explain How the Sinless Soul Deserved to Be Made Sinful
Chapter 16 [XIII.]
Difficulty in the Opinion Which Maintains that Souls are Not by Propagation
Chapter 18
By “Breath” Is Signified Sometimes the Holy Spirit
Chapter 19
The Meaning of “Breath” In Scripture
Chapter 20
Other Ways of Taking the Passage
Chapter 21
The Second Passage Quoted by Victor
Chapter 22
Victor’s Third Quotation
Chapter 23
His Fourth Quotation
Chapter 26 [XVI.]
The Fifth Passage of Scripture Quoted by Victor
Chapter 27 [XVII.]
Augustin Did Not Venture to Define Anything About the Propagation of the Soul
Chapter 28
A Natural Figure of Speech Must Not Be Literally Pressed
Chapter 29 [XVIII.]
The Sixth Passage of Scripture Quoted by Victor
Chapter 30
The Danger of Arguing from Silence
Chapter 32 [XIX.]
The Self-Contradiction of Victor as to the Origin of the Soul
Book II
In the Shape of a Letter Addressed to the Presbyter Peter
Chapter 1 [I.]
Depraved Eloquence an Injurious Accomplishment
Chapter 2 [II.]
He Asks What the Great Knowledge is that Victor Imparts
Chapter 3
The Difference Between the Senses of the Body and Soul
Chapter 4
To Believe the Soul is a Part of God is Blasphemy
Chapter 5 [III.]
In What Sense Created Beings are Out of God
Chapter 6
Shall God’s Nature Be Mutable, Sinful, Impious, Even Eternally Damned
Chapter 7
To Think the Soul Corporeal an Error
Chapter 8
The Thirst of the Rich Man in Hell Does Not Prove the Soul to Be Corporeal
Chapter 9 [V.]
How Could the Incorporeal God Breathe Out of Himself a Corporeal Substance?
Chapter 10 [VI.]
Children May Be Found of Like or of Unlike Dispositions with Their Parents
Chapter 11 [VII.]
Victor Implies that the Soul Had a “State” And “Merit” Before Incarnation
Chapter 12 [VIII.]
How Did the Soul Deserve to Be Incarnated?
Chapter 13 [IX.]
Victor Teaches that God Thwarts His Own Predestination
Chapter 15 [XI.]
Victor “Decides” That Oblations Should Be Offered Up for Those Who Die Unbaptized
Chapter 18 [XIII.]
Victor’s Dilemma and Fall
Chapter 19 [XIV.]
Victor Relies on Ambiguous Scriptures
Chapter 20
Victor Quotes Scriptures for Their Silence, and Neglects the Biblical Usage
Chapter 21 [XV.]
Victor’s Perplexity and Failure
Chapter 22 [XVI.]
Peter’s Responsibility in the Case of Victor
Chapter 23 [XVII.]
Who They are that are Not Injured by Reading Injurious Books
Book III
Addressed to Vincentius Victor
Chapter 1 [I.]
Augustin’s Purpose in Writing
Chapter 5
Examination of Victor’s Simile: Does Man Give Out Nothing by Breathing?
Chapter 6
The Simile Reformed in Accordance with Truth
Chapter 7 [V.]
Victor Apparently Gives the Creative Breath to Man Also
Chapter 8 [VI.]
Victor’s Second Error. (See Above in Book I. 26 [XVI.].)
Chapter 9 [VII.]
His Third Error. (See Above in Book II. 11 [VII.].)
Chapter 10
His Fourth Error. (See Above in Book I. 6 [VI.] and Book II. 11 [VII.].)
Chapter 11 [VIII.]
His Fifth Error. (See Above in Book I. 8 [VIII.] and Book II. 12 [VIII.].)
Chapter 13 [X]
His Seventh Error. (See Above in Book II. 13 [IX.].)
Chapter 14
His Eighth Error. (See Above in Book II. 13 [IX.].)
Chapter 15 [XI.]
His Ninth Error. (See Above in Book II. 14 [X.].)
Chapter 16
God Rules Everywhere: and Yet the “Kingdom of Heaven” May Not Be Everywhere
Chapter 17
Where the Kingdom of God May Be Understood to Be
Chapter 18 [XII.]
His Tenth Error. (See Above in Book I. 13 [XI.] and Book II. 15 [XI.])
Chapter 19 [XIII.]
His Eleventh Error. (See Above in Book I. 15 [XII.] and Book II. 16.)
Chapter 20 [XIV.]
Augustin Calls on Victor to Correct His Errors. (See Above in Book II. 22 [XVI.].)
Chapter 21
Augustin Compliments Victor’s Talents and Diligence
Chapter 22 [XV.]
A Summary Recapitulation of the Errors of Victor
Chapter 23
Obstinacy Makes the Heretic
Book IV
Addressed to Vincentius Victor
Chapter 1 [I.]
The Personal Character of This Book
Chapter 2 [II.]
The Points Which Victor Thought Blameworthy in Augustin
Chapter 3
How Much Do We Know of the Nature of the Body?
Chapter 4 [III.]
Is the Question of Breath One that Concerns the Soul, or Body, or What?
Chapter 5 [IV.]
God Alone Can Teach Whence Souls Come
Chapter 8
We Have No Memory of Our Creation
Chapter 9 [VII.]
Our Ignorance of Ourselves Illustrated by the Remarkable Memory of One Simplicius
Chapter 13 [IX.]
In What Sense the Holy Ghost is Said to Make Intercession for Us
Chapter 15 [XI.]
We Must Not Be Wise Above What is Written
Chapter 19 [XIII.]
Whether the Soul is a Spirit
Chapter 20 [XIV.]
The Body Does Not Receive God’s Image
Chapter 21 [XV.]
Recognition and Form Belong to Souls as Well as Bodies
Chapter 22
Names Do Not Imply Corporeity
Chapter 23 [XVI.]
Figurative Speech Must Not Be Taken Literally
Chapter 24
Abraham’s Bosom—What It Means
Chapter 25 [XVII.]
The Disembodied Soul May Think of Itself Under a Bodily Form
Chapter 27
Is the Soul Wounded When the Body is Wounded?
Chapter 28
Is the Soul Deformed by the Body’s Imperfections?
Chapter 29 [XIX.]
Does the Soul Take the Body’s Clothes Also Away with It?
Chapter 30
Is Corporeity Necessary for Recognition?
Chapter 31 [XX.]
Modes of Knowledge in the Soul Distinguished
Chapter 32
Inconsistency of Giving the Soul All the Parts of Sex and Yet No Sex
Chapter 33
The Phenix After Death Coming to Life Again
Chapter 34 [XXI.]
Prophetic Visions
Chapter 35
Do Angels Appear to Men in Real Bodies?
Chapter 36 [XXII.]
He Passes on to the Second Question About the Soul, Whether It is Called Spirit
Chapter 37 [XXIII.]
Wide and Narrow Sense of the Word “Spirit.”
Chapter 38 [XXIV.]
Victor’s Chief Errors Again Pointed Out
Chapter 39
Concluding Admonition
A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians
Book II. Chap. 61, On the Following Treatise, “contra duas epistolas pelagianorum.”
A Treatise Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians
Chapter 1
Introduction: Address to Boniface
Chapter 2
Why Heretical Writings Must Be Answered
Chapter 3
Why He Addresses His Book to Boniface
Chapter 5
Free Choice Did Not Perish With Adam ‘s Sin. What Freedom Did Perish
Chapter 6 [III.]
Grace is Not Given According to Merits
Chapter 7
He Concludes that He Does Not Deprive the Wicked of Free Will
Chapter 8 [IV.]
The Pelagians Demolish Free Will
Chapter 9 [V.]
Another Calumny of Julian,—That “It is Said that Marriage is Not Appointed by God.”
Chapter 10
The Third Calumny,—The Assertion that Conjugal Intercourse is Condemned
Chapter 11 [VI.]
The Purpose of the Pelagians in Praising the Innocence of Conjugal Intercourse
Chapter 15 [IX.]
He Sins in Will Who is Only Deterred from Sinning by Fear
Chapter 16
How Sin Died, and How It Revived
Chapter 17 [X.]
”The Law is Spiritual, But I Am Carnal,” To Be Understood of Paul
Chapter 18
How the Apostle Said that He Did the Evil that He Would Not
Chapter 19
What It is to Accomplish What is Good
Chapter 20
In Me, that Is, in My Flesh
Chapter 21
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus
Chapter 22
Why the Passage Referred to Must Be Understood of a Man Established Under Grace
Chapter 23 [XI.]
What It is to Be Delivered from the Body of This Death
Chapter 25 [XII.]
The Sixth Calumny,—That Augustin Asserts that Even Christ Was Not Free from Sins
Chapter 27
In What Sense Lust is Called Sin in the Regenerate
Chapter 28 [XIV.]
Many Without Crime, None Without Sin
Chapter 30
Secondly, of Marriage
Chapter 31
Thirdly, of Conjugal Intercourse
Chapter 32 [XVI.]
The Aprons Which Adam and Eve Wore
Chapter 33
The Shame of Nakedness
Chapter 34 [XVII.]
Whether There Could Be Sensual Appetite in Paradise Before the Fall
Chapter 35
Desire in Paradise Was Either None at All, or It Was Obedient to the Impulse of the Will
Chapter 37 [XIX.]
The Beginning of a Good Will is the Gift of Grace
Chapter 38 [XX.]
The Power of God’s Grace is Proved
Chapter 39 [XXI.]
Julian’s Fifth Objection Concerning the Saints of the Old Testament
Chapter 41 [XXIII.]
The Seventh Objection, of the Effect of Baptism
Chapter 42 [XXIV.]
He Rebuts the Conclusion of Julian’s Letter
Chapter 1
Introduction; The Pelagians Impeach Catholics as Manicheans
Chapter 3
How Far the Manicheans and Pelagians are Joined in Error; How Far They are Separated
Chapter 4
The Two Contrary Errors
Chapter 5 [III.]
The Calumny of the Pelagians Against the Clergy of the Roman Church
Chapter 6 [IV.]
What Was Done in the Case of Coelestius and Zosimus
Chapter 7
He Suggests a Dilemma to Coelestius
Chapter 8
The Catholic Faith Concerning Infants
Chapter 9 [V.]
He Replies to the Calumnies of the Pelagians
Chapter 10
Why the Pelagians Falsely Accuse Catholics of Maintaining Fate Under the Name of Grace
Chapter 11 [VI.]
The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon the Adversaries
Chapter 12
What is Meant Under the Name of Fate
Chapter 13 [VII.]
He Repels the Calumny Concerning the Acceptance of Persons
Chapter 14
He Illustrates His Argument by an Example
Chapter 15
The Apostle Meets the Question by Leaving It Unsolved
Chapter 18
The Desire of Good is God’s Gift
Chapter 19 [IX.]
He Interprets the Scriptures Which the Pelagians Make Ill Use of
Chapter 20
God’s Agency is Needful Even in Man’s Doings
Chapter 21
Man Does No Good Thing Which God Does Not Cause Him to Do
Chapter 22 [X.]
According to Whose Purpose the Elect are Called
Chapter 23
Nothing is Commanded to Man Which is Not Given by God
Chapter 2 [II.]
The Misrepresentation of the Pelagians Concerning the Use of the Old Law
Chapter 3
Scriptural Confirmation of the Catholic Doctrine
Chapter 4 [III.]
Misrepresentation Concerning the Effect of Baptism
Chapter 5
Baptism Puts Away All Sins, But It Does Not at Once Heal All Infirmities
Chapter 6 [IV.]
The Calumny Concerning the Old Testament and the Righteous Men of Old
Chapter 7
The New Testament is More Ancient Than the Old; But It Was Subsequently Revealed
Chapter 8
All Righteous Men Before and After Abraham are Children of the Promise and of Grace
Chapter 9
Who are the Children of the Old Covenant
Chapter 10
The Old Law Also Given by God
Chapter 11
Distinction Between the Children of the Old and of the New Testaments
Chapter 12
The Old Testament is Properly One Thing—The Old Instrument Another
Chapter 13
Why One of the Covenants is Called Old, the Other New
Chapter 14 [V.]
Calumny Concerning the Righteousness of the Prophets and Apostles
Chapter 15
The Perfection of Apostles and Prophets
Chapter 16 [VI.]
Misrepresentation Concerning Sin in Christ
Chapter 17 [VII.]
Their Calumny About the Fulfilment of Precepts in the Life to Come
Chapter 18
Perfection of Righteousness and Full Security Was Not Even in Paul in This Life
Chapter 19
In What Sense the Righteousness of Man in This Life is Said to Be Perfect
Chapter 20
Why the Righteousness Which is of the Law is Valued Slightly by Paul
Chapter 21
That Righteousness is Never Perfected in This Life
Chapter 22
Nature of Human Righteousness and Perfection
Chapter 23
There is No True Righteousness Without the Faith of the Grace of Christ
Chapter 24 [VIII.]
There are Three Principal Heads in the Pelagian Heresy
Chapter 1 [I.]
The Subterfuges of the Pelagians are Five
Chapter 2 [II.]
The Praise of the Creature
Chapter 4 [IV.]
Pelagians and Manicheans on the Praise of the Creature
Chapter 5
What is the Special Advantage in the Pelagian Opinions?
Chapter 6
Not Death Alone, But Sin Also Has Passed into Us by Means of Adam
Chapter 7
What is the Meaning of “In Whom All Have Sinned”?
Chapter 8
Death Passed Upon All by Sin
Chapter 9 [V.]
Of the Praise of Marriage
Chapter 10
Of the Praise of the Law
Chapter 11
The Pelagians Understand that the Law Itself is God’s Grace
Chapter 12 [VI.]
Of the Praise of Free Will
Chapter 13
God’s Purposes are Effects of Grace
Chapter 14
The Testimonies of Scripture in Favour of Grace
Chapter 15
From Such Scriptures Grace is Proved to Be Gratuitous and Effectual
Chapter 16
Why God Makes of Some Sheep, Others Not
Chapter 17 [VII.]
Of the Praise of the Saints
Chapter 18
The Opinion of the Saints Themselves About Themselves
Chapter 19
The Craft of the Pelagians
Chapter 20 [VIII.]
The Testimonies of the Ancients Against the Pelagians
Chapter 21
Pelagius, in Imitation of Cyprian, Wrote a Book of Testimonies
Chapter 22
Further References to Cyprian
Chapter 23
Further References to Cyprian
Chapter 24
The Dilemma Proposed to the Pelagians
Chapter 25 [IX.]
Cyprian’s Testimonies Concerning God’s Grace
Chapter 26
Further Appeals to Cyprian’s Teaching
Chapter 27 [X.]
Cyprian’s Testimonies Concerning the Imperfection of Our Own Righteousness
Chapter 28
Cyprian’s Orthodoxy Undoubted
Chapter 30
The Testimonies of Ambrose Concerning God’s Grace
Chapter 31
The Testimonies of Ambrose on the Imperfection of Present Righteousness
Chapter 32 [XII.]
The Pelagian’s Heresy Arose Long After Ambrose
Chapter 33
Opposition of the Manichean and Catholic Dogmas
Chapter 34
The Calling Together of a Synod Not Always Necessary to the Condemnation of Heresies
A Treatise On Grace And Free Will
Book II. Chap. 66, On the Following Treatise, “de gratia et libero arbitrio.”
A Treatise On Grace And Free Will
Chapter 1 [I.]
The Occasion and Argument of This Work
Chapter 4
The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom
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
Entering into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace
Chapter 10 [V.]
Free Will and God’s Grace are Simultaneously Commended
Chapter 11
Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse
Chapter 12
He Proves Out of St. Paul that Grace is Not Given According to Men’s Merits
Chapter 13 [VI.]
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 16 [VII.]
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 [VIII.]
How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
Chapter 21 [IX.]
Eternal Life is “Grace for Grace.”
Chapter 23 [XI.]
The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin
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 31 [XV.]
Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart’s Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its
Chapter 32 [XVI.]
In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s Commandments
Chapter 34
The Apostle’s Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered with Love
Chapter 35
Commendations of Love
Chapter 36
Love Commended by Our Lord Himself
Chapter 37 [XVIII.]
The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God
Chapter 39
The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God
Chapter 42 [XXI]
God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men
Chapter 43
God Operates on Men’s Hearts to Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases
Chapter 44 [XXII.]
Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants
Chapter 46 [XXIV.]
Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God
A Treatise On Rebuke And Grace
Book II. Chap. 67, On the Following Treatise, “de correptione et gratia.”
A Treatise On Rebuke And Grace
Chapter 2
The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will
Chapter 3 [II.]
What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is
Chapter 4
The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God
Chapter 5 [III.]
Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected
Chapter 6 [IV.]
Objections to the Use of Rebuke
Chapter 7 [V.]
The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke
Chapter 8
Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke
Chapter 10
All Perseverance is God’s Gift
Chapter 13
Election is of Grace, Not of Merit
Chapter 14
None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish
Chapter 15
Perseverance is Given to the End
Chapter 17 [VIII.]
Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable
Chapter 18
Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments
Chapter 19
God’s Ways Past Finding Out
Chapter 21
Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ
Chapter 22
True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ
Chapter 23
Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated
Chapter 24
Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage
Chapter 25
Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used
Chapter 26 [X.]
Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance
Chapter 28
The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will
Chapter 29 [XI.]
Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall
Chapter 30
The Incarnation of the Word
Chapter 32
The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation
Chapter 35
There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam
Chapter 36
God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So
Chapter 37
To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering
Chapter 38
What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints
Chapter 39 [XIII.]
The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined
Chapter 40
No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation
Chapter 41
Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us
Chapter 42
The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind
Chapter 43 [XIV.]
Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another
Chapter 44
In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved
Chapter 47
Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, “Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved.”
Chapter 48
The Purpose of Rebuke
A Treatise On The Predestination Of The Saints
Chapter 2
To What Extent the Massilians Withdraw from the Pelagians
Chapter 3 [II.]
Even the Beginning of Faith is of God’s Gift
Chapter 4
Continuation of the Preceding
Chapter 5
To Believe is to Think with Assent
Chapter 6
Presumption and Arrogance to Be Avoided
Chapter 7 [III.]
Augustin Confesses that He Had Formerly Been in Error Concerning the Grace of God
Chapter 8 [IV.]
What Augustin Wrote to Simplicianus, the Successor of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
Chapter 9 [V.]
The Purpose of the Apostle in These Words
Chapter 10
It is God’s Grace Which Specially Distinguishes One Man from Another
Chapter 11 [VI.]
That Some Men are Elected is of God’s Mercy
Chapter 12 [VII.]
Why the Apostle Said that We are Justified by Faith and Not by Works
Chapter 13 [VIII.]
The Effect of Divine Grace
Chapter 14
Why the Father Does Not Teach All that They May Come to Christ
Chapter 15
It is Believers that are Taught of God
Chapter 16
Why the Gift of Faith is Not Given to All
Chapter 18
The Preceding Argument Applied to the Present Time
Chapter 19 [X]
In What Respects Predestination and Grace Differ
Chapter 20
Did God Promise the Good Works of the Nations and Not Their Faith, to Abraham?
Chapter 22
God’s Promise is Sure
Chapter 23 [XII.]
Remarkable Illustrations of Grace and Predestination in Infants, and in Christ
Chapter 24
That No One is Judged According to What He Would Have Done If He Had Lived Longer
Chapter 26 [XIV]
Reference to Cyprian’s Treatise “On the Mortality.”
Chapter 27
The Book of Wisdom Obtains in the Church the Authority of Canonical Scripture
Chapter 28
Cyprian’s Treatise “On the Mortality.”
Chapter 29
God’s Dealing Does Not Depend Upon Any Contingent Merits of Men
Chapter 30 [XV.]
The Most Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus
Chapter 31
Christ Predestinated to Be the Son of God
Chapter 32 [XVI.]
The Twofold Calling
Chapter 35 [XVIII.]
Election is for the Purpose of Holiness
Chapter 39
The Beginning of Faith is God’s Gift
Chapter 40 [XX.]
Apostolic Testimony to the Beginning of Faith Being God’s Gift
Chapter 41
Further Apostolic Testimonies
Chapter 42
Old Testament Testimonies
A Treatise On The Gift Of Perseverance
Chapter 1 [I.]
Of the Nature of the Perseverance Here Discoursed of
Chapter 3
God is Besought for It, Because It is His Gift
Chapter 4
Three Leading Points of the Pelagian Doctrine
Chapter 5
The Second Petition in the Lord’s Prayer
Chapter 6 [III.]
The Third Petition. How Heaven and Earth are Understood in the Lord’s Prayer
Chapter 7 [IV.]
The Fourth Petition
Chapter 9
When Perseverance is Granted to a Person, He Cannot But Persevere
Chapter 10 [VI.]
The Gift of Perseverance Can Be Obtained by Prayer
Chapter 11
Effect of Prayer for Perseverance
Chapter 12
Of His Own Will a Man Forsakes God, So that He is Deservedly Forsaken of Him
Chapter 13 [VII.]
Temptation the Condition of Man
Chapter 14
It is God’s Grace Both that Man Comes to Him, and that Man Does Not Depart from Him
Chapter 15
Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer
Chapter 16 [VIII.]
Why is Not Grace Given According to Merit?
Chapter 17
The Difficulty of the Distinction Made in the Choice of One and the Rejection of Another
Chapter 18
But Why Should One Be Punished More Than Another?
Chapter 19
Why Does God Mingle Those Who Will Persevere with Those Who Will Not?
Chapter 20
Ambrose on God’s Control Over Men’s Thoughts
Chapter 21 [IX.]
Instances of the Unsearchable Judgments of God
Chapter 25 [XI.]
God’s Ways, Both in Mercy and Judgment, Past Finding Out
Chapter 27
Reference to the “Retractations.”
Chapter 28 [XII.]
God’s Goodness and Righteousness Shown in All
Chapter 30
Augustin Claims the Right to Grow in Knowledge
Chapter 32 [XIII.]
The Inscrutability of God’s Free Purposes
Chapter 33
God Gives Both Initiatory and Persevering Grace According to His Own Will
Chapter 34 [XIV.]
The Doctrine of Predestination Not Opposed to the Advantage of Preaching
Chapter 35
What Predestination is
Chapter 37
Ears to Hear are a Willingness to Obey
Chapter 39 [XVI]
Prayer and Exhortation
Chapter 40
When the Truth Must Be Spoken, When Kept Back
Chapter 41
Predestination Defined as Only God’s Disposing of Events in His Foreknowledge
Chapter 43
Further Development of the Foregoing Argument
Chapter 44
Exhortation to Wisdom, Though Wisdom is God’s Gift
Chapter 45
Exhortation to Other Gifts of God in Like Manner
Chapter 46
A Man Who Does Not Persevere Fails by His Own Fault
Chapter 47
Predestination is Sometimes Signified Under the Name of Foreknowledge
Chapter 48 [XIX.]
Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose
Chapter 49
Further References to Cyprian and Ambrose
Chapter 50
Obedience Not Discouraged by Preaching God’s Gifts
Chapter 51 [XX.]
Predestination Must Be Preached
Chapter 52
Previous Writings Anticipatively Refuted the Pelagian Heresy
Chapter 53
Augustin’s “Confessions.”
Chapter 54 [XXI.]
Beginning and End of Faith is of God
Chapter 55
Testimony of His Previous Writings and Letters
Chapter 56
God Gives Means as Well as End
Chapter 57 [XXII.]
How Predestination Must Be Preached So as Not to Give Offence
Chapter 58
The Doctrine to Be Applied with Discrimination
Chapter 59
Offence to Be Avoided
Chapter 60
The Application to the Church in General
Chapter 61
Use of the Third Person Rather Than the Second
Chapter 62
Prayer to Be Inculcated, Nevertheless
Chapter 63 [XXIII.]
The Testimony of the Whole Church in Her Prayers
Chapter 64
In What Sense the Holy Spirit Solicits for Us, Crying, Abba, Father
Chapter 65
The Church’s Prayers Imply the Church’s Faith
Chapter 66 [XXIV.]
Recapitulation and Exhortation
Chapter 67
The Most Eminent Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus