A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin

Contents (104 chapters)

1. 1. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
2. 2. On the Grace of Christ. — Introductory.
3. 3. On the Grace of Christ. — Suspicious Character of Pelagius’ Confession as to the Necessity of Grace for Every Single Act of Ours.
4. 4. On the Grace of Christ. — Grace According to the Pelagians.
5. 5. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius’ System of Faculties.
6. 6. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius’ Own Account of the Faculties, Quoted.
7. 7. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius and Paul of Different Opinions.
8. 8. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Posits God’s Aid Only for Our 'Capacity.'
9. 9. On the Grace of Christ. — Grace, According to the Pelagians, Consists in the Internal and Manifold Illumination of the Mind.
10. 10. On the Grace of Christ. — The Law One Thing, Grace Another. The Utility of the Law.
11. 11. On the Grace of Christ. — What Purpose the Law Subserves.
12. 12. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius’ Definition of How God Helps Us: 'He Promises Us Future Glory.'
13. 13. On the Grace of Christ. — The Same Continued: 'He Reveals Wisdom.'
14. 14. On the Grace of Christ. — Grace Causes Us to Do.
15. 15. On the Grace of Christ. — The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law.
16. 16. On the Grace of Christ. — He Who Has Been Taught by Grace Actually Comes to Christ.
17. 17. On the Grace of Christ. — We Need Divine Aid in the Use of Our Powers. Illustration from Sight.
18. 18. On the Grace of Christ. — Does Pelagius Designedly Refrain from Openly Saying that All Good Action is from God?
19. 19. On the Grace of Christ. — He Discovers the Reason of Pelagius’ Hesitation So to Say.
20. 20. On the Grace of Christ. — The Two Roots of Action, Love and Cupidity; And Each Brings Forth Its Own Fruit.
21. 21. On the Grace of Christ. — How a Man Makes a Good or a Bad Tree.
22. 22. On the Grace of Christ. — Love the Root of All Good Things; Cupidity, of All Evil Ones.
23. 23. On the Grace of Christ. — Love is a Good Will.
24. 24. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius’ Double Dealing Concerning the Ground of the Conferrence of Grace.
25. 25. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Places Free Will at the Basis of All Turning to God for Grace.
26. 26. On the Grace of Christ. — God by His Wonderful Power Works in Our Hearts Good Dispositions of Our Will.
27. 27. On the Grace of Christ. — The Pelagian Grace of ‘Capacity’ Exploded. The Scripture Teaches the Need of God’s Help in Doing, Speaking, and Thinking, Alike.
28. 28. On the Grace of Christ. — What True Grace Is, and Wherefore Given. Merits Do Not Precede Grace.
29. 29. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Teaches that Satan May Be Resisted Without the Help of the Grace of God.
30. 30. On the Grace of Christ. — When He Speaks of God’s Help, He Means It Only to Help Us Do What Without It We Still Could Do.
31. 31. On the Grace of Christ. — What Pelagius Thinks is Needful for Ease of Performance is Really Necessary for the Performance.
32. 32. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius and Cœlestius Nowhere Really Acknowledge Grace.
33. 33. On the Grace of Christ. — Why the Pelagians Deemed Prayers to Be Necessary. The Letter Which Pelagius Despatched to Pope Innocent with an Exposition of His Belief.
34. 34. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Professes Nothing on the Subject of Grace Which May Not Be Understood of the Law and Teaching.
35. 35. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Says that Grace is Given According to Men’s Merits. The Beginning, However, of Merit is Faith; And This is a Gratuitous Gift, Not a Recompense for Our Merits.
36. 36. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Believes that Infants Have No Sin to Be Remitted in Baptism.
37. 37. On the Grace of Christ. — Cœlestius Openly Declares Infants to Have No Original Sin.
38. 38. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Nowhere Admits the Need of Divine Help for Will and Action.
39. 39. On the Grace of Christ. — A Definition of the Grace of Christ by Pelagius.
40. 40. On the Grace of Christ. — A Letter of Pelagius Unknown to Augustin.
41. 41. On the Grace of Christ. — The Help of Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Mere Revelation of Teaching.
42. 42. On the Grace of Christ. — Restoration of Nature Understood by Pelagius as Forgiveness of Sins.
43. 43. On the Grace of Christ. — Grace Placed by Pelagius in the Remission of Sins and the Example of Christ.
44. 44. On the Grace of Christ. — The Forgiveness of Sins and Example of Christ Held by Pelagius Enough to Save the Most Hardened Sinner.
45. 45. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Once More Guards Himself Against the Necessity of Grace.
46. 46. On the Grace of Christ. — To What Purpose Pelagius Thought Prayers Ought to Be Offered.
47. 47. On the Grace of Christ. — Pelagius Professes to Respect the Catholic Authors.
48. 48. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Most Highly Praised by Pelagius.
49. 49. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose is Not in Agreement with Pelagius.
50. 50. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Teaches with What Eye Christ Turned and Looked Upon Peter.
51. 51. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Teaches that All Men Need God’s Help.
52. 52. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Teaches that It is God that Does for Man What Pelagius Attributes to Free Will.
53. 53. On the Grace of Christ. — If Pelagius Agrees with Ambrose, Augustin Has No Controversy with Him.
54. 54. On the Grace of Christ. — In What Sense Some Men May Be Said to Live Without Sin in the Present Life.
55. 55. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Teaches that No One is Sinless in This World.
56. 56. On the Grace of Christ. — Ambrose Witnesses that Perfect Purity is Impossible to Human Nature.
57. 57. On Original Sin. — Caution Needed in Attending to Pelagius’ Deliverances on Infant Baptism.
58. 58. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius, on His Trial at Carthage, Refuses to Condemn His Error; The Written Statement Which He Gave to Zosimus.
59. 59. On Original Sin. — Part of the Proceedings of the Council of Carthage Against Cœlestius.
60. 60. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius Concedes Baptism for Infants, Without Affirming Original Sin.
61. 61. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius’ Book Which Was Produced in the Proceedings at Rome.
62. 62. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius the Disciple is In This Work Bolder Than His Master.
63. 63. On Original Sin. — Pope Zosimus Kindly Excuses Him.
64. 64. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius Condemned by Zosimus.
65. 65. On Original Sin. — Pelagius Deceived the Council in Palestine, But Was Unable to Deceive the Church at Rome.
66. 66. On Original Sin. — The Judgment of Innocent Respecting the Proceedings in Palestine.
67. 67. On Original Sin. — How that Pelagius Deceived the Synod of Palestine.
68. 68. On Original Sin. — A Portion of the Proceedings of the Synod of Palestine in the Cause of Pelagius.
69. 69. On Original Sin. — Cœlestius the Bolder Heretic; Pelagius the More Subtle.
70. 70. On Original Sin. — He Shows That, Even After the Synod of Palestine, Pelagius Held the Same Opinions as Cœlestius on the Subject of Original Sin.
71. 71. On Original Sin. — Pelagius by His Mendacity and Deception Stole His Acquittal from the Synod in Palestine.
72. 72. On Original Sin. — Pelagius’ Fraudulent and Crafty Excuses.
73. 73. On Original Sin. — How Pelagius Deceived His Judges.
74. 74. On Original Sin. — The Condemnation of Pelagius.
75. 75. On Original Sin. — Pelagius’ Attempt to Deceive the Apostolic See; He Inverts the Bearings of the Controversy.
76. 76. On Original Sin. — Pelagius Provides a Refuge for His Falsehood in Ambiguous Subterfuges.
77. 77. On Original Sin. — Pelagius Avoids the Question as to Why Baptism is Necessary for Infants.
78. 78. On Original Sin. — Another Instance of Pelagius’ Ambiguity.
79. 79. On Original Sin. — What He Means by Our Birth to an ‘Uncertain’ Life.
80. 80. On Original Sin. — Pelagius’ Long Residence at Rome.
81. 81. On Original Sin. — The Condemnation of Pelagius and Cœlestius.
82. 82. On Original Sin. — The Pelagians Maintain that Raising Questions About Original Sin Does Not Endanger the Faith.
83. 83. On Original Sin. — On Questions Outside the Faith—What They Are, and Instances of the Same.
84. 84. On Original Sin. — The Heresy of Pelagius and Cœlestius Aims at the Very Foundations of Our Faith.
85. 85. On Original Sin. — The Righteous Men Who Lived in the Time of the Law Were for All that Not Under the Law, But Under Grace. The Grace of the New Testament Hidden Under the Old.
86. 86. On Original Sin. — Pelagius and Cœlestius Deny that the Ancient Saints Were Saved by Christ.
87. 87. On Original Sin. — Christ’s Incarnation Was of Avail to the Fathers, Even Though It Had Not Yet Happened.
88. 88. On Original Sin. — He Shows by the Example of Abraham that the Ancient Saints Believed in the Incarnation of Christ.
89. 89. On Original Sin. — How Christ is Our Mediator.
90. 90. On Original Sin. — No Man Ever Saved Save by Christ.
91. 91. On Original Sin. — Why the Circumcision of Infants Was Enjoined Under Pain of So Great a Punishment.
92. 92. On Original Sin. — The Platonists’ Opinion About the Existence of the Soul Previous to the Body Rejected.
93. 93. On Original Sin. — In What Sense Christ is Called 'Sin.'
94. 94. On Original Sin. — Original Sin Does Not Render Marriage Evil.
95. 95. On Original Sin. — Three Things Good and Laudable in Matrimony.
96. 96. On Original Sin. — Marriage Existed Before Sin Was Committed. How God’s Blessing Operated in Our First Parents.
97. 97. On Original Sin. — Lust and Travail Come from Sin. Whence Our Members Became a Cause of Shame.
98. 98. On Original Sin. — The Evil of Lust Ought Not to Be Ascribed to Marriage. The Three Good Results of the Nuptial Ordinance: Offspring, Chastity, and the Sacramental Union.
99. 99. On Original Sin. — Human Offspring, Even Previous to Birth, Under Condemnation at the Very Root. Uses of Matrimony Undertaken for Mere Pleasure Not Without Venial Fault.
100. 100. On Original Sin. — Even the Children of the Regenerate Born in Sin. The Effect of Baptism.
101. 101. On Original Sin. — Man’s Deliverance Suited to the Character of His Captivity.
102. 102. On Original Sin. — Difficulty of Believing Original Sin. Man’s Vice is a Beast’s Nature.
103. 103. On Original Sin. — Sentences from Ambrose in Favour of Original Sin.
104. 104. On Original Sin. — Pelagius Rightly Condemned and Really Opposed by Ambrose.