Blessed Augustine of Hippo

A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace

5th c.

Classic translation

Dogmatic & Doctrinal · English translation, 1890

Contents

• Title Page
• Extract From Augustin’s Retractations
• Argument
• Introductory
• The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will
• What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ Is
• The Children of God Are Led by the Spirit of God
• Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected
• Objections to the Use of Rebuke
• The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke
• Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke
• Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet…
• All Perseverance is God’s Gift
• They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed Into…
• They Who Have Not Received Perseverance Are Not Distinguished From the Mass of…
• Election is of Grace, Not of Merit
• None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish
• Perseverance is Given to the End
• Whosoever Do Not Persevere Are Not Distinguished From the Mass of Perdition by…
• Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable
• Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments
• God’s Ways Past Finding Out
• Some Are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According…
• Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ
• True Children of God Are True Disciples of Christ
• Those Who Are Called According to the Purpose Alone Are Predestinated
• Even the Sins of the Elect Are Turned by God to Their Advantage
• Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used
• Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance
• The Answer
• The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will
• Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall
• The Incarnation of the Word
• The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its…
• The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation
• What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake…
• The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid With Which a…
• There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam
• God Not Only Foreknows That Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So
• To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering
• What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance That is Now Given to the Saints
• The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined
• No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation
• Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us
• The Reprobate Are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind
• Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another
• In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved
• Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved That God Has Men’s Wills More in His…
• Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No…
• Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be…
• The Purpose of Rebuke
• Conclusion