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On the Spirit and the Letter
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.5
- Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
- The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May…
- 2. The Examples Apposite
- Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin
- Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God’s…
- True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and Love of…
- The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is “The Letter that Killeth.”
- 7. What is Proposed to Be Here Treated
- 8. Romans Interprets Corinthians
- 9. Through the Law Sin Has Abounded
- 10. Christ the True Healer
- 11. From What Fountain Good Works Flow
- 12. Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace
- Keeping the Law; The Jews’ Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision of the Heart
- In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification
- The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets
- 16. How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man
- 17. The Exclusion of Boasting
- Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
- 19. The Knowledged of God Through the Creation
- 20. The Law Without Grace
- 21. The Law of Works and the Law of Faith
- 22. No Man Justified by Works
- 23. How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present
- 24. The Passage in Corinthians
- 25. The Passage in Romans
- 26. No Fruit Good Except It Grow from the Root of Love
- Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New
- 28. Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God
- 29. A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law
- 30. The New Law Written Within
- 31. The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness
- 32. The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace
- 33. The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament
- 34. The Law; Grace
- 35. The Old Law; The New Law
- 36. The Law Written in Our Hearts
- 37. The Eternal Reward
- The Re-Formation Which is Now Being Effected, Compared with the Perfection of the Life to…
- The Eternal Reward Which is Specially Declared in the New Testament, Foretold by the…
- How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Depends Grace
- The Law Written in the Heart, and the Reward of the Eternal Contemplation of God, Belong…
- 42. Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments
- A Question Touching the Passage in the Apostle About the Gentiles Who are Said to Do by…
- The Answer Is, that the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New Covenant
- It is Not by Their Works, But by Grace, that the Doers of the Law are Justified; God’s…
- 46. 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
- 49. The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant
- 50. Righteousness is the Gift of God
- 51. Faith the Ground of All Righteousness
- 52. Grace Establishes Free Will
- 53. Volition and Ability
- 54. Whether Faith Be in a Man’s Own Power
- 55. What Faith is Laudable
- The Faith of Those Who are Under the Law Different from the Faith of Others
- 57. Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
- 58. The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power
- 59. Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God
- 60. The Will to Believe is from God
- 61. Conclusion of the Work
- He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him
- 63. An Objection
- 64. 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 Impossible