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A Treatise On Grace And Free Will

BY

AURELIUS AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

A TREATISE ON GRACE AND FREE WILL

CHAPTER 1
THE OCCASION AND ARGUMENT OF THIS WORK

CHAPTER 2
PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL IN MAN 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 WHICH ARE MOST SUITED TO THE WILL ITSELF ILLUSTRATE ITS FREEDOM

CHAPTER 5
HE SHOWS THAT IGNORANCE AFFORDS NO SUCH EXCUSE AS SHALL FREE THE OFFENDER FROM PUNISHMENT; BUT THAT TO SIN WITH KNOWLEDGE IS A GRAVER THING THAN TO SIN IN IGNORANCE

CHAPTER 6
GOD’S GRACE TO BE MAINTAINED AGAINST THE PELAGIANS; THE PELAGIAN HERESY 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
ENTERING INTO TEMPTATION. PRAYER 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
HE PROVES OUT OF ST. PAUL 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
WHO MAY BE SAID TO WISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS. "GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS," SO CALLED, WHICH MAN HAS FROM GOD

CHAPTER 25
AS THE LAW IS NOT, SO NEITHER IS OUR NATURE ITSELF THAT GRACE BY WHICH WE ARE CHRISTIANS

CHAPTER 26
THE PELAGIANS CONTEND THAT THE GRACE, WHICH IS NEITHER THE LAW NOR NATURE, AVAILS ONLY TO THE REMISSION OF PAST SINS, BUT NOT TO THE AVOIDANCE OF 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

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, GREAT LOVE. OPERATING AND COOPERATING GRACE

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
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 A GREAT GIFT OF GOD

CHAPTER 40
THE IGNORANCE OF THE PELAGIANS 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 WHITHERSOEVER IT PLEASES HIM

CHAPTER 42
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
GRATUITOUS GRACE EXEMPLIFIED IN INFANTS

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

CHAPTER 46
UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM MUST BE SOUGHT FROM GOD

 
 
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