A Treatise on Nature and Grace
Classic translation
5th c. · Dogmatic & Doctrinal · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I (ed. Philip Schaff, 1886–90)
Free to read onlineDownload free:EPUBKindle (AZW3)Kobo (KEPUB)
Contents
Introduction & Notes
A Treatise on Nature and Grace
- Note on the Following Work
- Argument
- 1. The Occasion of Publishing This Work; What God’s Righteousness is
- 2. Faith in Christ Not Necessary to Salvation, If a Man Without It Can Lead a…
- 3. Nature Was Created Sound and Whole; It Was Afterwards Corrupted by Sin
- Chapter 4.—Free Grace
- 5. It Was a Matter of Justice that All Should Be Condemned
- 6. The Pelagians Have Very Strong and Active Minds
- 7. He Proceeds to Confute the Work of Pelagius; He Refrains as Yet from…
- 8. A Distinction Drawn by Pelagius Between the Possible and Actual
- 9. Even They Who Were Not Able to Be Justified are Condemned
- 10. He Could Not Be Justified, Who Had Not Heard of the Name of Christ…
- 11. Grace Subtly Acknowledged by Pelagius
- 12. In Our Discussions About Grace, We Do Not Speak of that Which Relates to…
- 13. The Scope and Purpose of the Law’s Threatenings; ‘Perfect Wayfarers.’
- Chapter 14.—Refutation of Pelagius
- 15. Not Everything [of Doctrinal Truth] is Written in Scripture in So Many Words
- 16. Pelagius Corrupts a Passage of the Apostle James by Adding a Note of…
- 17. Explanation of This Text Continued
- 18. Who May Be Said to Be in the Flesh
- 19. Sins of Ignorance; To Whom Wisdom is Given by God on Their Requesting It
- 20. What Prayer Pelagius Would Admit to Be Necessary
- 21. Pelagius Denies that Human Nature Has Been Depraved or Corrupted by Sin
- 22. How Our Nature Could Be Vitiated by Sin, Even Though It Be Not a Substance
- 23. Adam Delivered by the Mercy of Christ
- 24. Sin and the Penalty of Sin the Same
- 25. God Forsakes Only Those Who Deserve to Be Forsaken. We are Sufficient of…
- Christ Died of His Own Power and Choice
- 27. Even Evils, Through God’s Mercy, are of Use
- 28. The Disposition of Nearly All Who Go Astray. With Some Heretics Our…
- 29. A Simile to Show that God’s Grace is Necessary for Doing Any Good Work…
- 30. Sin is Removed by Sin
- 31. The Order and Process of Healing Our Heavenly Physician Does Not Adopt from…
- 32. God Forsakes Us to Some Extent that We May Not Grow Proud
- 33. Not Every Sin is Pride. How Pride is the Commencement of Every Sin
- 34. A Man’s Sin is His Own, But He Needs Grace for His Cure
- 35. Why God Does Not Immediately Cure Pride Itself. The Secret and Insidious…
- 36. Pride Even in Such Things as are Done Aright Must Be Avoided. Free Will is…
- 37. Being Wholly Without Sin Does Not Put Man on an Equality with God
- 38. We Must Not Lie, Even for the Sake of Moderation. The Praise of Humility…
- 39. Pelagius Glorifies God as Creator at the Expense of God as Saviour
- 40. Why There is a Record in Scripture of Certain Men’s Sins, Recklessness in…
- 41. Whether Holy Men Have Died Without Sin
- 42. The Blessed Virgin Mary May Have Lived Without Sin. None of the Saints…
- 43. Why Scripture Has Not Mentioned the Sins of All
- 44. Pelagius Argues that Abel Was Sinless
- 45. Why Cain Has Been by Some Thought to Have Had Children by His Mother Eve…
- 46. Shall We Follow Scripture, or Add to Its Declarations?
- 47. For What Pelagius Thought that Christ is Necessary to Us
- 48. How the Term ‘All’ Is to Be Understood
- 49. A Man Can Be Sinless, But Only by the Help of Grace. In the Saints This…
- Chapter 50.—God Commands No Impossibilities
- 51. State of the Question Between the Pelagians and the Catholics. Holy Men of…
- 52. The Whole Discussion is About Grace
- 53. Pelagius Distinguishes Between a Power and Its Use
- 54. There is No Incompatibility Between Necessity and Free Will
- Chapter 55.—The Same Continued
- 56. The Assistance of Grace in a Perfect Nature
- 57. It Does Not Detract from God’s Almighty Power, that He is Incapable of…
- 58. Even Pious and God-Fearing Men Resist Grace
- 59. In What Sense Pelagius Attributed to God’s Grace the Capacity of Not Sinning
- 60. Pelagius Admits ‘Contrary Flesh’ In the Unbaptized
- 61. Paul Asserts that the Flesh is Contrary Even in the Baptized
- 62. Concerning What Grace of God is Here Under Discussion. The Ungodly Man…
- Chapter 63.—Does God Create Contraries?
- 64. Pelagius’ Admission as Regards the Unbaptized, Fatal
- 65. ‘This Body of Death,’ So Called from Its Defect, Not from Its Substance
- 66. The Works, Not the Substance, of the ‘Flesh’ Opposed to the ‘Spirit.’
- 67. Who May Be Said to Be Under the Law
- 68. Despite the Devil, Man May, by God’s Help, Be Perfected
- 69. Pelagius Puts Nature in the Place of Grace
- 70. Whether Any Man is Without Sin in This Life
- 71. Augustin Replies Against the Quotations Which Pelagius Had Advanced Out of…
- 72. Hilary. The Pure in Heart Blessed. The Doing and Perfecting of Righteousness
- 73. He Meets Pelagius with Another Passage from Hilary
- Chapter 74.—Ambrose
- 75. Augustin Adduces in Reply Some Other Passages of Ambrose
- Chapter 76.—John of Constantinople
- Chapter 77.—Xystus
- Chapter 78.—Jerome
- 79. A Certain Necessity of Sinning
- 80. Augustin Himself. Two Methods Whereby Sins, Like Diseases, are Guarded…
- 81. Augustin Quotes Himself on Free Will
- 82. How to Exhort Men to Faith, Repentance, and Advancement
- 83. God Enjoins No Impossibility, Because All Things are Possible and Easy to…
- 84. The Degrees of Love are Also Degrees of Holiness