A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians

Contents (126 chapters)

1. 1. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
2. 2. Book I — Introduction: Address to Boniface.
3. 3. Book I — Why Heretical Writings Must Be Answered.
4. 4. Book I — Why He Addresses His Book to Boniface.
5. 5. Book I — The Calumny of Julian,—That the Catholics Teach that Free Will is Taken Away by Adam’s Sin.
6. 6. Book I — Free Choice Did Not Perish With Adam ’s Sin. What Freedom Did Perish.
7. 7. Book I — Grace is Not Given According to Merits.
8. 8. Book I — He Concludes that He Does Not Deprive the Wicked of Free Will.
9. 9. Book I — The Pelagians Demolish Free Will.
10. 10. Book I — Another Calumny of Julian,—That 'It is Said that Marriage is Not Appointed by God.'
11. 11. Book I — The Third Calumny,—The Assertion that Conjugal Intercourse is Condemned.
12. 12. Book I — The Purpose of the Pelagians in Praising the Innocence of Conjugal Intercourse.
13. 13. Book I — The Fourth Calumny,—That the Saints of the Old Testament are Said to Be Not Free from Sins.
14. 14. Book I — The Fifth Calumny,—That It is Said that Paul and the Rest of the Apostles Were Polluted by Lust.
15. 15. Book I — That the Apostle is Speaking in His Own Person and that of Others Who Are Under Grace, Not Still Under Law.
16. 16. Book I — He Sins in Will Who is Only Deterred from Sinning by Fear.
17. 17. Book I — How Sin Died, and How It Revived.
18. 18. Book I — 'The Law is Spiritual, But I Am Carnal,' To Be Understood of Paul.
19. 19. Book I — How the Apostle Said that He Did the Evil that He Would Not.
20. 20. Book I — What It is to Accomplish What is Good.
21. 21. Book I — In Me, that Is, in My Flesh.
22. 22. Book I — No Condemnation in Christ Jesus.
23. 23. Book I — Why the Passage Referred to Must Be Understood of a Man Established Under Grace.
24. 24. Book I — What It is to Be Delivered from the Body of This Death.
25. 25. Book I — He Concludes that the Apostle Spoke in His Own Person, and that of Those Who are Under Grace.
26. 26. Book I — The Sixth Calumny,—That Augustin Asserts that Even Christ Was Not Free from Sins.
27. 27. Book I — The Seventh Calumny,—That Augustin Asserts that in Baptism All Sins are Not Remitted.
28. 28. Book I — In What Sense Lust is Called Sin in the Regenerate.
29. 29. Book I — Many Without Crime, None Without Sin.
30. 30. Book I — Julian Opposes the Faith of His Friends to the Opinions of Catholic Believers. First of All, of Free Will.
31. 31. Book I — Secondly, of Marriage.
32. 32. Book I — Thirdly, of Conjugal Intercourse.
33. 33. Book I — The Aprons Which Adam and Eve Wore.
34. 34. Book I — The Shame of Nakedness.
35. 35. Book I — Whether There Could Be Sensual Appetite in Paradise Before the Fall.
36. 36. Book I — Desire in Paradise Was Either None at All, or It Was Obedient to the Impulse of the Will.
37. 37. Book I — Julian’s Fourth Objection, that Man is God’s Work, and is Not Constrained to Evil or Good by His Power.
38. 38. Book I — The Beginning of a Good Will is the Gift of Grace.
39. 39. Book I — The Power of God’s Grace is Proved.
40. 40. Book I — Julian’s Fifth Objection Concerning the Saints of the Old Testament.
41. 41. Book I — The Sixth Objection, Concerning the Necessity of Grace for All, and Concerning the Baptism of Infants.
42. 42. Book I — The Seventh Objection, of the Effect of Baptism.
43. 43. Book I — He Rebuts the Conclusion of Julian’s Letter.
44. 44. Book II — Introduction; The Pelagians Impeach Catholics as Manicheans.
45. 45. Book II — The Heresies of the Manicheans and Pelagians are Mutually Opposed, and are Alike Reprobated by the Catholic Church.
46. 46. Book II — How Far the Manicheans and Pelagians are Joined in Error; How Far They are Separated.
47. 47. Book II — The Two Contrary Errors.
48. 48. Book II — The Calumny of the Pelagians Against the Clergy of the Roman Church.
49. 49. Book II — What Was Done in the Case of Cœlestius and Zosimus.
50. 50. Book II — He Suggests a Dilemma to Cœlestius.
51. 51. Book II — The Catholic Faith Concerning Infants.
52. 52. Book II — He Replies to the Calumnies of the Pelagians.
53. 53. Book II — Why the Pelagians Falsely Accuse Catholics of Maintaining Fate Under the Name of Grace.
54. 54. Book II — The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon the Adversaries.
55. 55. Book II — What is Meant Under the Name of Fate.
56. 56. Book II — He Repels the Calumny Concerning the Acceptance of Persons.
57. 57. Book II — He Illustrates His Argument by an Example.
58. 58. Book II — The Apostle Meets the Question by Leaving It Unsolved.
59. 59. Book II — The Pelagians are Refuted by the Case of the Twin Infants Dying, the One After, and the Other Without, the Grace of Baptism.
60. 60. Book II — Even the Desire of an Imperfect Good is a Gift of Grace, Otherwise Grace Would Be Given According to Merits.
61. 61. Book II — The Desire of Good is God’s Gift.
62. 62. Book II — He Interprets the Scriptures Which the Pelagians Make Ill Use of.
63. 63. Book II — God’s Agency is Needful Even in Man’s Doings.
64. 64. Book II — Man Does No Good Thing Which God Does Not Cause Him to Do.
65. 65. Book II — According to Whose Purpose the Elect are Called.
66. 66. Book II — Nothing is Commanded to Man Which is Not Given by God.
67. 67. Book III. — Statement.
68. 68. Book III. — The Misrepresentation of the Pelagians Concerning the Use of the Old Law.
69. 69. Book III. — Scriptural Confirmation of the Catholic Doctrine.
70. 70. Book III. — Misrepresentation Concerning the Effect of Baptism.
71. 71. Book III. — Baptism Puts Away All Sins, But It Does Not at Once Heal All Infirmities.
72. 72. Book III. — The Calumny Concerning the Old Testament and the Righteous Men of Old.
73. 73. Book III. — The New Testament is More Ancient Than the Old; But It Was Subsequently Revealed.
74. 74. Book III. — All Righteous Men Before and After Abraham are Children of the Promise and of Grace.
75. 75. Book III. — Who are the Children of the Old Covenant.
76. 76. Book III. — The Old Law Also Given by God.
77. 77. Book III. — Distinction Between the Children of the Old and of the New Testaments.
78. 78. Book III. — The Old Testament is Properly One Thing—The Old Instrument Another.
79. 79. Book III. — Why One of the Covenants is Called Old, the Other New.
80. 80. Book III. — Calumny Concerning the Righteousness of the Prophets and Apostles.
81. 81. Book III. — The Perfection of Apostles and Prophets.
82. 82. Book III. — Misrepresentation Concerning Sin in Christ.
83. 83. Book III. — Their Calumny About the Fulfilment of Precepts in the Life to Come.
84. 84. Book III. — Perfection of Righteousness and Full Security Was Not Even in Paul in This Life.
85. 85. Book III. — In What Sense the Righteousness of Man in This Life is Said to Be Perfect.
86. 86. Book III. — Why the Righteousness Which is of the Law is Valued Slightly by Paul.
87. 87. Book III. — That Righteousness is Never Perfected in This Life.
88. 88. Book III. — Nature of Human Righteousness and Perfection.
89. 89. Book III. — There is No True Righteousness Without the Faith of the Grace of Christ.
90. 90. Book III. — There are Three Principal Heads in the Pelagian Heresy.
91. 91. Book III. — He Shows that the Opinion of the Catholics is the Mean Between that of the Manicheans and Pelagians, and Refutes Both.
92. 92. Book III. — The Pelagians Still Strive After a Hiding-Place, by Introducing the Needless Question of the Origin of the Soul.
93. 93. Book IV — The Subterfuges of the Pelagians are Five.
94. 94. Book IV — The Praise of the Creature.
95. 95. Book IV — The Catholics Praise Nature, Marriage, Law, Free Will, and the Saints, in Such Wise as to Condemn as Well Pelagians as Manicheans.
96. 96. Book IV — Pelagians and Manicheans on the Praise of the Creature.
97. 97. Book IV — What is the Special Advantage in the Pelagian Opinions?
98. 98. Book IV — Not Death Alone, But Sin Also Has Passed into Us by Means of Adam.
99. 99. Book IV — What is the Meaning of ‘In Whom All Have Sinned’?
100. 100. Book IV — Death Passed Upon All by Sin.
101. 101. Book IV — Of the Praise of Marriage.
102. 102. Book IV — Of the Praise of the Law.
103. 103. Book IV — The Pelagians Understand that the Law Itself is God’s Grace.
104. 104. Book IV — Of the Praise of Free Will.
105. 105. Book IV — God’s Purposes are Effects of Grace.
106. 106. Book IV — The Testimonies of Scripture in Favour of Grace.
107. 107. Book IV — From Such Scriptures Grace is Proved to Be Gratuitous and Effectual.
108. 108. Book IV — Why God Makes of Some Sheep, Others Not.
109. 109. Book IV — Of the Praise of the Saints.
110. 110. Book IV — The Opinion of the Saints Themselves About Themselves.
111. 111. Book IV — The Craft of the Pelagians.
112. 112. Book IV — The Testimonies of the Ancients Against the Pelagians.
113. 113. Book IV — Pelagius, in Imitation of Cyprian, Wrote a Book of Testimonies.
114. 114. Book IV — Further References to Cyprian.
115. 115. Book IV — Further References to Cyprian.
116. 116. Book IV — The Dilemma Proposed to the Pelagians.
117. 117. Book IV — Cyprian’s Testimonies Concerning God’s Grace.
118. 118. Book IV — Further Appeals to Cyprian’s Teaching.
119. 119. Book IV — Cyprian’s Testimonies Concerning the Imperfection of Our Own Righteousness.
120. 120. Book IV — Cyprian’s Orthodoxy Undoubted.
121. 121. Book IV — The Testimonies of Ambrose Against the Pelagians and First of All Concerning Original Sin.
122. 122. Book IV — The Testimonies of Ambrose Concerning God’s Grace.
123. 123. Book IV — The Testimonies of Ambrose on the Imperfection of Present Righteousness.
124. 124. Book IV — The Pelagian’s Heresy Arose Long After Ambrose.
125. 125. Book IV — Opposition of the Manichean and Catholic Dogmas.
126. 126. Book IV — The Calling Together of a Synod Not Always Necessary to the Condemnation of Heresies.