A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
- 0. Abstract
- 1. The Occasion and Argument of This Work
- 2. He Proves the Existence of Free Will in Man from the Precepts Addressed to Him by God
- 3. Sinners are Convicted When Attempting to Excuse Themselves by Blaming God, Because They Have Free Will
- 4. The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom
- 5. He Shows that Ignorance Affords No Such Excuse as Shall Free the Offender from Punishment; But that to Sin with Knowledge is a Graver Thing Than to Sin in Ignorance
- 6. God’s Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians; The Pelagian Heresy Not an Old One
- 7. Grace is Necessary Along with Free Will to Lead a Good Life
- 8. Conjugal Chastity is Itself the Gift of God
- 9. Entering into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace
- 10. Free Will and God’s Grace are Simultaneously Commended
- 11. Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse
- 12. He Proves Out of St. Paul that Grace is Not Given According to Men’s Merits
- 13. The Grace of God is Not Given According to Merit, But Itself Makes All Good Desert
- 14. Paul First Received Grace that He Might Win the Crown
- 15. The Pelagians Profess that the Only Grace Which is Not Given According to Our Merits is that of the Forgiveness of Sins
- 16. Paul Fought, But God Gave the Victory: He Ran, But God Showed Mercy
- 17. The Faith that He Kept Was the Free Gift of God
- 18. Faith Without Good Works is Not Sufficient for Salvation
- 19. How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
- 20. The Question Answered. Justification is Grace Simply and Entirely, Eternal Life is Reward and Grace
- 21. Eternal Life is 'Grace for Grace.'
- 22. Who is the Transgressor of the Law? The Oldness of Its Letter. The Newness of Its Spirit
- 23. The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin
- 24. Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness. ‘God’s Righteousness,’ So Called, Which Man Has from God
- 25. As The Law is Not, So Neither is Our Nature Itself that Grace by Which We are Christians
- 26. The Pelagians Contend that the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature, Avails Only to the Remission of Past Sins, But Not to the Avoidance of Future Ones
- 27. Grace Effects the Fulfilment of the Law, the Deliverance of Nature, and the Suppression of Sin’s Dominion
- 28. Faith is the Gift of God
- 29. God is Able to Convert Opposing Wills, and to Take Away from the Heart Its Hardness
- 30. The Grace by Which the Stony Heart is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts, But by Evil Ones
- 31. Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart’s Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its
- 32. In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s Commandments
- 33. A Good Will May Be Small and Weak; An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating and Co-operating Grace
- 34. The Apostle’s Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered with Love
- 35. Commendations of Love
- 36. Love Commended by Our Lord Himself
- 37. The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God
- 38. We Would Not Love God Unless He First Loved Us. The Apostles Chose Christ Because They Were Chosen; They Were Not Chosen Because They Chose Christ
- 39. The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God
- 40. The Ignorance of the Pelagians in Maintaining that the Knowledge of the Law Comes from God, But that Love Comes from Ourselves
- 41. The Wills of Men are So Much in the Power of God, that He Can Turn Them Whithersoever It Pleases Him
- 42. God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men
- 43. God Operates on Men’s Hearts to Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases
- 44. Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants
- 45. The Reason Why One Person is Assisted by Grace, and Another is Not Helped, Must Be Referred to the Secret Judgments of God
- 46. Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God