Blessed Augustine of Hippo

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter

5th c.

Classic translation Public domain

Dogmatic & Doctrinal · English translation, 1890

Contents

• Title Page
• Extract From Augustin’s Retractations
• Argument
• The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and…
• The Examples Apposite
• Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say That a Man Lives Here Without…
• Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who…
• True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and…
• The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is 'The Letter That Killeth.'
• What is Proposed to Be Here Treated
• Romans Interprets Corinthians
• Through the Law Sin Has Abounded
• Christ the True Healer
• From What Fountain Good Works Flow
• Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace
• Keeping the Law; The Jews’ Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision…
• In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification
• The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets
• How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man
• The Exclusion of Boasting
• Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
• The Knowledge of God Through the Creation
• The Law Without Grace
• The Law of Works and the Law of Faith
• No Man Justified by Works
• How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present
• The Passage in Corinthians
• The Passage in Romans
• No Fruit Good Except It Grow From the Root of Love
• Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New
• Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God
• A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law
• The New Law Written Within
• The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness
• The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace
• The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament
• The Law; Grace
• The Old Law; The New Law
• The Law Written in Our Hearts
• The Eternal Reward
• The Re-Formation Which is Now Being Effected, Compared With the Perfection of…
• The Eternal Reward Which is Specially Declared in the New Testament, Foretold…
• How That is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace
• The Law Written in the Heart, and the Reward of the Eternal Contemplation of…
• Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments
• A Question Touching the Passage in the Apostle About the Gentiles Who Are Said…
• The Answer Is, That the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New…
• It is Not by Their Works, But by Grace, That the Doers of the Law Are…
• How the Passage of the Law Agrees With That of the Prophet
• The Law ‘Being Done by Nature’ Means, Done by Nature as Restored by Grace
• The Image of God is Not Wholly Blotted Out in These Unbelievers; Venial Sins
• The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant
• Righteousness is the Gift of God
• Faith the Ground of All Righteousness
• Grace Establishes Free Will
• Volition and Ability
• Whether Faith Be in a Man’s Own Power
• What Faith is Laudable
• The Faith of Those Who Are Under the Law Different From the Faith of Others
• Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
• The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power
• Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God
• The Will to Believe is From God
• Conclusion of the Work
• He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him
• An Objection
• When the Commandment to Love is Fulfilled
• In What Sense a Sinless Righteousness in This Life Can Be Asserted
• Although Perfect Righteousness Be Not Found Here on Earth, It is Still Not…