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A Treatise On Grace And Free Will
BY
AURELIUS AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A TREATISE ON GRACE AND FREE WILL
CHAPTER 1
THE OCCASION AND ARGUMENT OF THIS WORK
CHAPTER 2
PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF FREE WILL IN MAN FROM THE PRECEPTS ADDRESSED TO HIM BY GOD
CHAPTER 3
SINNERS ARE CONVICTED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO EXCUSE THEMSELVES BY BLAMING GOD, BECAUSE THEY
HAVE FREE WILL
CHAPTER 4
THE DIVINE COMMANDS WHICH ARE MOST SUITED TO THE WILL ITSELF ILLUSTRATE ITS FREEDOM
CHAPTER 5
HE SHOWS THAT IGNORANCE AFFORDS NO SUCH EXCUSE AS SHALL FREE THE OFFENDER FROM PUNISHMENT;
BUT THAT TO SIN WITH KNOWLEDGE IS A GRAVER THING THAN TO SIN IN IGNORANCE
CHAPTER 6
GOD’S GRACE TO BE MAINTAINED AGAINST THE PELAGIANS; THE PELAGIAN HERESY NOT AN OLD
ONE
CHAPTER 7
GRACE IS NECESSARY ALONG WITH FREE WILL TO LEAD A GOOD LIFE
CHAPTER 8
CONJUGAL CHASTITY IS ITSELF THE GIFT OF GOD
CHAPTER 9
ENTERING INTO TEMPTATION. PRAYER IS A PROOF OF GRACE
CHAPTER 10
FREE WILL AND GOD’S GRACE ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY COMMENDED
CHAPTER 11
OTHER PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH THE PELAGIANS ABUSE
CHAPTER 12
HE PROVES OUT OF ST. PAUL THAT GRACE IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MEN’S MERITS
CHAPTER 13
THE GRACE OF GOD IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO MERIT, BUT ITSELF MAKES ALL GOOD DESERT
CHAPTER 14
PAUL FIRST RECEIVED GRACE THAT HE MIGHT WIN THE CROWN
CHAPTER 15
THE PELAGIANS PROFESS THAT THE ONLY GRACE WHICH IS NOT GIVEN ACCORDING TO OUR MERITS IS
THAT OF THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS
CHAPTER 16
PAUL FOUGHT, BUT GOD GAVE THE VICTORY: HE RAN, BUT GOD SHOWED MERCY
CHAPTER 17
THE FAITH THAT HE KEPT WAS THE FREE GIFT OF GOD
CHAPTER 18
FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORKS IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR SALVATION
CHAPTER 19
HOW IS ETERNAL LIFE BOTH A REWARD FOR SERVICE AND A FREE GIFT OF GRACE?
CHAPTER 20
THE QUESTION ANSWERED. JUSTIFICATION IS GRACE SIMPLY AND ENTIRELY, ETERNAL LIFE IS REWARD
AND GRACE
CHAPTER 21
ETERNAL LIFE IS "GRACE FOR GRACE"
CHAPTER 22
WHO IS THE TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW? THE OLDNESS OF ITS LETTER. THE NEWNESS OF ITS SPIRIT
CHAPTER 23
THE PELAGIANS MAINTAIN THAT THE LAW IS THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH HELPS US NOT TO SIN
CHAPTER 24
WHO MAY BE SAID TO WISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS. "GOD’S
RIGHTEOUSNESS," SO CALLED, WHICH MAN HAS FROM GOD
CHAPTER 25
AS THE LAW IS NOT, SO NEITHER IS OUR NATURE ITSELF THAT GRACE BY WHICH WE ARE CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER 26
THE PELAGIANS CONTEND THAT THE GRACE, WHICH IS NEITHER THE LAW NOR NATURE, AVAILS ONLY TO
THE REMISSION OF PAST SINS, BUT NOT TO THE AVOIDANCE OF FUTURE ONES.
CHAPTER 27
GRACE EFFECTS THE FULFILMENT OF THE LAW, THE DELIVERANCE OF NATURE, AND THE SUPPRESSION OF
SIN’S DOMINION
CHAPTER 28
FAITH IS THE GIFT OF GOD
CHAPTER 29
GOD IS ABLE TO CONVERT OPPOSING WILLS, AND TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE HEART ITS HARDNESS
CHAPTER 30
THE GRACE BY WHICH THE STONY HEART IS REMOVED IS NOT PRECEDED BY GOOD DESERTS, BUT BY EVIL
ONES
CHAPTER 31
FREE WILL HAS ITS FUNCTION IN THE HEART’S CONVERSION; BUT GRACE TOO HAS ITS
CHAPTER 32
IN WHAT SENSE IT IS RIGHTLY SAID THAT, IF WE LIKE, WE MAY KEEP GOD’S COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER 33
A GOOD WILL MAY BE SMALL AND WEAK; AN AMPLE WILL, GREAT LOVE. OPERATING AND COOPERATING
GRACE
CHAPTER 34
THE APOSTLE’S EULOGY OF LOVE. CORRECTION TO BE ADMINISTERED WITH LOVE
CHAPTER 35
COMMENDATIONS OF LOVE
CHAPTER 36
LOVE COMMENDED BY OUR LORD HIMSELF
CHAPTER 37
THE LOVE WHICH FULFILS THE COMMANDMENTS IS NOT OF OURSELVES, BUT OF GOD
CHAPTER 38
WE WOULD NOT LOVE GOD UNLESS HE FIRST LOVED US. THE APOSTLES CHOSE CHRIST BECAUSE THEY
WERE CHOSEN; THEY WERE NOT CHOSEN BECAUSE THEY CHOSE CHRIST
CHAPTER 39
THE SPIRIT OF FEAR A GREAT GIFT OF GOD
CHAPTER 40
THE IGNORANCE OF THE PELAGIANS IN MAINTAINING THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW COMES FROM
GOD, BUT THAT LOVE COMES FROM OURSELVES
CHAPTER 41
THE WILLS OF MEN ARE SO MUCH IN THE POWER OF GOD, THAT HE CAN TURN THEM WHITHERSOEVER IT
PLEASES HIM
CHAPTER 42
GOD DOES WHATSOEVER HE WILLS IN THE HEARTS OF EVEN WICKED MEN
CHAPTER 43
GOD OPERATES ON MEN’S HEARTS: TO INCLINE THEIR WILLS WHITHERSOEVER HE PLEASES
CHAPTER 44
GRATUITOUS GRACE EXEMPLIFIED IN INFANTS
CHAPTER 45
THE REASON WAY ONE PERSON IS ASSISTED BY GRACE, AND ANOTHER IS NOT HELPED, MUST BE
REFERRED TO THE SECRET JUDGMENTS OF GOD
CHAPTER 46
UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM MUST BE SOUGHT FROM GOD
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