A Treatise on Rebuke 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)
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Contents
- Extract From Augustin’s Retractations
- Argument
- Chapter 1.—Introductory
- 2. The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will
- 3. What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is
- 4. The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God
- 5. Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected
- 6. Objections to the Use of Rebuke
- 7. The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke
- 8. Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke
- 9. Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not…
- 10. All Perseverance is God’s Gift
- 11. They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into…
- 12. They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass…
- 13. Election is of Grace, Not of Merit
- 14. None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish
- 15. Perseverance is Given to the End
- 16. Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition…
- 17. Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable
- 18. Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments
- 19. God’s Ways Past Finding Out
- 20. Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some…
- 21. Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ
- 22. True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ
- 23. Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated
- 24. Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage
- 25. Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used
- 26. Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance
- Chapter 27.—The Answer
- 28. The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will
- 29. Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall
- 30. The Incarnation of the Word
- 31. The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But…
- 32. The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation
- 33. What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake…
- 34. The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which…
- 35. There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam
- 36. God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So
- 37. To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering
- 38. What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the…
- 39. The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined
- 40. No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation
- 41. Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us
- 42. The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind
- 43. Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another
- 44. In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved
- 45. Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in…
- 46. Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No…
- 47. Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to…
- Chapter 48.—The Purpose of Rebuke
- Chapter 49.—Conclusion