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On Nature and Grace
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.5
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- Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
- The Occasion of Publishing This Work; What God’s Righteousness is
- Faith in Christ Not Necessary to Salvation, If a Man Without It Can Lead a Righteous Life
- Nature Was Created Sound and Whole; It Was Afterwards Corrupted by Sin
- 4. Free Grace
- 5. It Was a Matter of Justice that All Should Be Condemned
- 6. The Pelagians Have Very Strong and Active Minds
- He Proceeds to Confute the Work of Pelagius; He Refrains as Yet from Mentioning Pelagius’…
- A Distinction Drawn by Pelagius Between the Possible and Actual
- 9. Even They Who Were Not Able to Be Justified are Condemned
- He Could Not Be Justified, Who Had Not Heard of the Name of Christ; Rendering the Cross…
- 11. Grace Subtly Acknowledged by Pelagius
- In Our Discussions About Grace, We Do Not Speak of that Which Relates to the Constitution…
- The Scope and Purpose of the Law’s Threatenings; “Perfect Wayfarers.”
- 14. Refutation of Pelagius
- Not Everything [of Doctrinal Truth] is Written in Scripture in So Many Words
- Pelagius Corrupts a Passage of the Apostle James by Adding a Note of Interrogation
- 17. Explanation of This Text Continued
- 18. Who May Be Said to Be in the Flesh
- Sins of Ignorance; To Whom Wisdom is Given by God on Their Requesting It
- 20. What Prayer Pelagius Would Admit to Be Necessary
- Pelagius Denies that Human Nature Has Been Depraved or Corrupted by Sin
- How Our Nature Could Be Vitiated by Sin, Even Though It Be Not a Substance
- 23. Adam Delivered by the Mercy of Christ
- 24. Sin and the Penalty of Sin the Same
- God Forsakes Only Those Who Deserve to Be Forsaken. We are Sufficient of Ourselves to…
- 26. Christ Died of His Own Power and Choice
- 27. Even Evils, Through God’s Mercy, are of Use
- The Disposition of Nearly All Who Go Astray. With Some Heretics Our Business Ought Not to…
- A Simile to Show that God’s Grace is Necessary for Doing Any Good Work Whatever. God…
- 30. Sin is Removed by Sin
- The Order and Process of Healing Our Heavenly Physician Does Not Adopt from the Sick…
- 32. God Forsakes Us to Some Extent that We May Not Grow Proud
- Not Every Sin is Pride. How Pride is the Commencement of Every Sin
- 34. A Man’s Sin is His Own, But He Needs Grace for His Cure
- Why God Does Not Immediately Cure Pride Itself. The Secret and Insidious Growth of Pride.…
- Pride Even in Such Things as are Done Aright Must Be Avoided. Free Will is Not Taken Away…
- Being Wholly Without Sin Does Not Put Man on an Equality with God
- We Must Not Lie, Even for the Sake of Moderation. The Praise of Humility Must Not Be…
- Pelagius Glorifies God as Creator at the Expense of God as Saviour
- Why There is a Record in Scripture of Certain Men’s Sins, Recklessness in Sin Accounts It…
- 41. Whether Holy Men Have Died Without Sin
- The Blessed Virgin Mary May Have Lived Without Sin. None of the Saints Besides Her…
- 43. Why Scripture Has Not Mentioned the Sins of All
- 44. Pelagius Argues that Abel Was Sinless
- Why Cain Has Been by Some Thought to Have Had Children by His Mother Eve. The Sins of…
- 46. Shall We Follow Scripture, or Add to Its Declarations?
- 47. For What Pelagius Thought that Christ is Necessary to Us
- 48. How the Term “All” Is to Be Understood
- A Man Can Be Sinless, But Only by the Help of Grace. In the Saints This Possibility…
- 50. God Commands No Impossibilities
- State of the Question Between the Pelagians and the Catholics. Holy Men of Old Saved by…
- 52. The Whole Discussion is About Grace
- 53. Pelagius Distinguishes Between a Power and Its Use
- 54. There is No Incompatibility Between Necessity and Free Will
- 55. The Same Continued
- 56. The Assistance of Grace in a Perfect Nature
- It Does Not Detract from God’s Almighty Power, that He is Incapable of Either Sinning, or…
- 58. Even Pious and God-Fearing Men Resist Grace
- In What Sense Pelagius Attributed to God’s Grace the Capacity of Not Sinning
- 60. Pelagius Admits “Contrary Flesh” In the Unbaptized
- Paul Asserts that the Flesh is Contrary Even in the Baptized
- Concerning What Grace of God is Here Under Discussion. The Ungodly Man, When Dying, is…
- 63. Does God Create Contraries?
- 64. Pelagius’ Admission as Regards the Unbaptized, Fatal
- “This Body of Death,” So Called from Its Defect, Not from Its Substance
- The Works, Not the Substance, of the “Flesh” Opposed to the “Spirit.”
- 67. Who May Be Said to Be Under the Law
- 68. Despite the Devil, Man May, by God’s Help, Be Perfected
- 69. Pelagius Puts Nature in the Place of Grace
- 70. Whether Any Man is Without Sin in This Life
- Augustin Replies Against the Quotations Which Pelagius Had Advanced Out of the Catholic…
- Hilary. The Pure in Heart Blessed. The Doing and Perfecting of Righteousness
- 73. He Meets Pelagius with Another Passage from Hilary
- 74. Ambrose
- 75. Augustin Adduces in Reply Some Other Passages of Ambrose
- 76. John of Constantinople
- 77. Xystus
- 78. Jerome
- 79. A Certain Necessity of Sinning
- Augustin Himself. Two Methods Whereby Sins, Like Diseases, are Guarded Against
- 81. Augustin Quotes Himself on Free Will
- 82. How to Exhort Men to Faith, Repentance, and Advancement
- God Enjoins No Impossibility, Because All Things are Possible and Easy to Love
- 84. The Degrees of Love are Also Degrees of Holiness