Blessed Augustine of Hippo

A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin

5th c.

Classic translation Public domain

Treatises & Other · English translation, 1890

Contents

• Title Page
• Extract From Augustin’s Retractations
• On the Grace of Christ.
• Introduction
• Introductory
• Suspicious Character of Pelagius’ Confession as to the Necessity of Grace for…
• Grace According to the Pelagians
• Pelagius’ System of Faculties
• Pelagius’ Own Account of the Faculties, Quoted
• Pelagius and Paul of Different Opinions
• Pelagius Posits God’s Aid Only for Our 'Capacity.'
• Grace, According to the Pelagians, Consists in the Internal and Manifold…
• The Law One Thing, Grace Another. The Utility of the Law
• What Purpose the Law Subserves
• Pelagius’ Definition of How God Helps Us: 'He Promises Us Future Glory.'
• The Same Continued: 'He Reveals Wisdom.'
• Grace Causes Us to Do
• The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law
• He Who Has Been Taught by Grace Actually Comes to Christ
• We Need Divine Aid in the Use of Our Powers. Illustration From Sight
• Does Pelagius Designedly Refrain From Openly Saying That All Good Action is…
• He Discovers the Reason of Pelagius’ Hesitation So to Say
• The Two Roots of Action, Love and Cupidity; And Each Brings Forth Its Own Fruit
• How a Man Makes a Good or a Bad Tree
• Love the Root of All Good Things; Cupidity, of All Evil Ones
• Love is a Good Will
• Pelagius’ Double Dealing Concerning the Ground of the Conferrence of Grace
• Pelagius Places Free Will at the Basis of All Turning to God for Grace
• God by His Wonderful Power Works in Our Hearts Good Dispositions of Our Will
• The Pelagian Grace of ‘Capacity’ Exploded. The Scripture Teaches the Need of…
• What True Grace Is, and Wherefore Given. Merits Do Not Precede Grace
• Pelagius Teaches That Satan May Be Resisted Without the Help of the Grace of God
• When He Speaks of God’s Help, He Means It Only to Help Us Do What Without It We…
• What Pelagius Thinks is Needful for Ease of Performance is Really Necessary for…
• Pelagius and Cœlestius Nowhere Really Acknowledge Grace
• Why the Pelagians Deemed Prayers to Be Necessary. The Letter Which Pelagius…
• Pelagius Professes Nothing on the Subject of Grace Which May Not Be Understood…
• Pelagius Says That Grace is Given According to Men’s Merits. The Beginning…
• Pelagius Believes That Infants Have No Sin to Be Remitted in Baptism
• Cœlestius Openly Declares Infants to Have No Original Sin
• Pelagius Nowhere Admits the Need of Divine Help for Will and Action
• A Definition of the Grace of Christ by Pelagius
• A Letter of Pelagius Unknown to Augustin
• The Help of Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Mere Revelation of Teaching
• Restoration of Nature Understood by Pelagius as Forgiveness of Sins
• Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Remission of Sins and the Example of Christ
• The Forgiveness of Sins and Example of Christ Held by Pelagius Enough to Save…
• Pelagius Once More Guards Himself Against the Necessity of Grace
• To What Purpose Pelagius Thought Prayers Ought to Be Offered
• Pelagius Professes to Respect the Catholic Authors
• Ambrose Most Highly Praised by Pelagius
• Ambrose is Not in Agreement With Pelagius
• Ambrose Teaches With What Eye Christ Turned and Looked Upon Peter
• Ambrose Teaches That All Men Need God’s Help
• Ambrose Teaches That It is God That Does for Man What Pelagius Attributes to…
• If Pelagius Agrees With Ambrose, Augustin Has No Controversy With Him
• In What Sense Some Men May Be Said to Live Without Sin in the Present Life
• Ambrose Teaches That No One is Sinless in This World
• Ambrose Witnesses That Perfect Purity is Impossible to Human Nature
• On Original Sin.
• Introduction (i)
• Caution Needed in Attending to Pelagius’ Deliverances on Infant Baptism
• Cœlestius, on His Trial at Carthage, Refuses to Condemn His Error; The Written…
• Part of the Proceedings of the Council of Carthage Against Cœlestius
• Cœlestius Concedes Baptism for Infants, Without Affirming Original Sin
• Cœlestius’ Book Which Was Produced in the Proceedings at Rome
• Cœlestius the Disciple is In This Work Bolder Than His Master
• Pope Zosimus Kindly Excuses Him
• Cœlestius Condemned by Zosimus
• Pelagius Deceived the Council in Palestine, But Was Unable to Deceive the…
• The Judgment of Innocent Respecting the Proceedings in Palestine
• How That Pelagius Deceived the Synod of Palestine
• A Portion of the Proceedings of the Synod of Palestine in the Cause of Pelagius
• Cœlestius the Bolder Heretic; Pelagius the More Subtle
• He Shows That, Even After the Synod of Palestine, Pelagius Held the Same…
• Pelagius by His Mendacity and Deception Stole His Acquittal From the Synod in…
• Pelagius’ Fraudulent and Crafty Excuses
• How Pelagius Deceived His Judges
• The Condemnation of Pelagius
• Pelagius’ Attempt to Deceive the Apostolic See; He Inverts the Bearings of the…
• Pelagius Provides a Refuge for His Falsehood in Ambiguous Subterfuges
• Pelagius Avoids the Question as to Why Baptism is Necessary for Infants
• Another Instance of Pelagius’ Ambiguity
• What He Means by Our Birth to an ‘Uncertain’ Life
• Pelagius’ Long Residence at Rome
• The Condemnation of Pelagius and Cœlestius
• The Pelagians Maintain That Raising Questions About Original Sin Does Not…
• On Questions Outside the Faith—What They Are, and Instances of the Same
• The Heresy of Pelagius and Cœlestius Aims at the Very Foundations of Our Faith
• The Righteous Men Who Lived in the Time of the Law Were for All That Not Under…
• Pelagius and Cœlestius Deny That the Ancient Saints Were Saved by Christ
• Christ’s Incarnation Was of Avail to the Fathers, Even Though It Had Not Yet…
• He Shows by the Example of Abraham That the Ancient Saints Believed in the…
• How Christ is Our Mediator
• No Man Ever Saved Save by Christ
• Why the Circumcision of Infants Was Enjoined Under Pain of So Great a Punishment
• The Platonists’ Opinion About the Existence of the Soul Previous to the Body…
• In What Sense Christ is Called 'Sin.'
• Original Sin Does Not Render Marriage Evil
• Three Things Good and Laudable in Matrimony
• Marriage Existed Before Sin Was Committed. How God’s Blessing Operated in Our…
• Lust and Travail Come From Sin. Whence Our Members Became a Cause of Shame
• The Evil of Lust Ought Not to Be Ascribed to Marriage. The Three Good Results…
• Human Offspring, Even Previous to Birth, Under Condemnation at the Very Root…
• Even the Children of the Regenerate Born in Sin. The Effect of Baptism
• Man’s Deliverance Suited to the Character of His Captivity
• Difficulty of Believing Original Sin. Man’s Vice is a Beast’s Nature
• Sentences From Ambrose in Favour of Original Sin
• Pelagius Rightly Condemned and Really Opposed by Ambrose