Fisherman's Friend

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter

edited by Philip Schaff · NPNF I

NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

Contents (68 chapters)

  1. 1. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
  2. 2. Argument.
  3. 3. The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May Never Be Done.
  4. 4. The Examples Apposite.
  5. 5. Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin.
  6. 6. Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God’s Grace to Be Necessary.
  7. 7. True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and Love of Goodness.
  8. 8. The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is 'The Letter that Killeth.'
  9. 9. What is Proposed to Be Here Treated.
  10. 10. Romans Interprets Corinthians.
  11. 11. Through the Law Sin Has Abounded.
  12. 12. Christ the True Healer.
  13. 13. From What Fountain Good Works Flow.
  14. 14. Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace.
  15. 15. Keeping the Law; The Jews’ Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision of the Heart.
  16. 16. In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification.
  17. 17. The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets.
  18. 18. How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man.
  19. 19. The Exclusion of Boasting.
  20. 20. Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces.
  21. 21. The Knowledge of God Through the Creation.
  22. 22. The Law Without Grace.
  23. 23. The Law of Works and the Law of Faith.
  24. 24. No Man Justified by Works.
  25. 25. How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present.
  26. 26. The Passage in Corinthians.
  27. 27. The Passage in Romans.
  28. 28. No Fruit Good Except It Grow from the Root of Love.
  29. 29. Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New.
  30. 30. Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God.
  31. 31. A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law.
  32. 32. The New Law Written Within.
  33. 33. The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness.
  34. 34. The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace.
  35. 35. The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament.
  36. 36. The Law; Grace.
  37. 37. The Old Law; The New Law.
  38. 38. The Law Written in Our Hearts.
  39. 39. The Eternal Reward.
  40. 40. The Re-Formation Which is Now Being Effected, Compared with the Perfection of the Life to Come.
  41. 41. The Eternal Reward Which is Specially Declared in the New Testament, Foretold by the Prophet.
  42. 42. How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace.
  43. 43. The Law Written in the Heart, and the Reward of the Eternal Contemplation of God, Belong to the New Covenant; Who Among the Saints are the Least and the Greatest.
  44. 44. Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments.
  45. 45. A Question Touching the Passage in the Apostle About the Gentiles Who are Said to Do by Nature the Law’s Commands, Which They are Also Said to Have Written on Their Hearts.
  46. 46. The Answer Is, that the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New Covenant.
  47. 47. It is Not by Their Works, But by Grace, that the Doers of the Law are Justified; God’s Saints and God’s Name Hallowed in Different Senses.
  48. 48. How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet.
  49. 49. The Law ‘Being Done by Nature’ Means, Done by Nature as Restored by Grace.
  50. 50. The Image of God is Not Wholly Blotted Out in These Unbelievers; Venial Sins.
  51. 51. The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant.
  52. 52. Righteousness is the Gift of God.
  53. 53. Faith the Ground of All Righteousness.
  54. 54. Grace Establishes Free Will.
  55. 55. Volition and Ability.
  56. 56. Whether Faith Be in a Man’s Own Power.
  57. 57. What Faith is Laudable.
  58. 58. The Faith of Those Who are Under the Law Different from the Faith of Others.
  59. 59. Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
  60. 60. The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power.
  61. 61. Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God.
  62. 62. The Will to Believe is from God.
  63. 63. Conclusion of the Work.
  64. 64. He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him.
  65. 65. An Objection.
  66. 66. When the Commandment to Love is Fulfilled.
  67. 67. In What Sense a Sinless Righteousness in This Life Can Be Asserted.
  68. 68. Although Perfect Righteousness Be Not Found Here on Earth, It is Still Not Impossible.

Source: CCEL