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