Blessed Augustine of Hippo

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will

5th c.

Classic translation

Dogmatic & Doctrinal · English translation, 1890

Contents

• Title Page
• Extract From Augustin’s Retractations
• Two Letters Written by Augustin to Valentinus and the Monks of Adrumetum.
• Introduction
• Letter I
• Letter II
• Abstract.
• Introduction (i)
• The Occasion and Argument of This Work
• He Proves the Existence of Free Will in Man From the Precepts Addressed to Him…
• Sinners Are Convicted When Attempting to Excuse Themselves by Blaming God…
• The Divine Commands Which Are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its…
• He Shows That Ignorance Affords No Such Excuse as Shall Free the Offender From…
• God’s Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians; The Pelagian Heresy Not an…
• Grace is Necessary Along With Free Will to Lead a Good Life
• Conjugal Chastity is Itself the Gift of God
• Entering Into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace
• Free Will and God’s Grace Are Simultaneously Commended
• Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse
• He Proves Out of St. Paul That Grace is Not Given According to Men’s Merits
• The Grace of God is Not Given According to Merit, But Itself Makes All Good…
• Paul First Received Grace That He Might Win the Crown
• The Pelagians Profess That the Only Grace Which is Not Given According to Our…
• Paul Fought, But God Gave the Victory: He Ran, But God Showed Mercy
• The Faith That He Kept Was the Free Gift of God
• Faith Without Good Works is Not Sufficient for Salvation
• How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
• The Question Answered. Justification is Grace Simply and Entirely, Eternal Life…
• Eternal Life is 'Grace for Grace.'
• Who is the Transgressor of the Law? The Oldness of Its Letter. The Newness of…
• The Pelagians Maintain That the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to…
• Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness. ‘God’s…
• As The Law is Not, So Neither is Our Nature Itself That Grace by Which We Are…
• The Pelagians Contend That the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature…
• Grace Effects the Fulfilment of the Law, the Deliverance of Nature, and the…
• Faith is the Gift of God
• God is Able to Convert Opposing Wills, and to Take Away From the Heart Its…
• The Grace by Which the Stony Heart is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts…
• Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart’s Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its
• In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s…
• A Good Will May Be Small and Weak; An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating and…
• The Apostle’s Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered With Love
• Commendations of Love
• Love Commended by Our Lord Himself
• The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God
• We Would Not Love God Unless He First Loved Us. The Apostles Chose Christ…
• The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God
• The Ignorance of the Pelagians in Maintaining That the Knowledge of the Law…
• The Wills of Men Are So Much in the Power of God, That He Can Turn Them…
• God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men
• God Operates on Men’s Hearts to Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases
• Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants
• The Reason Why One Person is Assisted by Grace, and Another is Not Helped, Must…
• Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought From God