Azione Romana

A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace

St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) · De correptione et gratia · PL 44, 915–946

  1. extract-from-augustins-retract. Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
  2. 1. Introductory
  3. 2. The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will
  4. 3. What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is
  5. 4. The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God
  6. 5. Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected
  7. 6. Objections to the Use of Rebuke
  8. 7. The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke
  9. 8. Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke
  10. 9. Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received the Grace of Obedience
  11. 10. All Perseverance is God’s Gift
  12. 11. They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned
  13. 12. They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost
  14. 13. Election is of Grace, Not of Merit
  15. 14. None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish
  16. 15. Perseverance is Given to the End
  17. 16. Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination
  18. 17. Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable
  19. 18. Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments
  20. 19. God’s Ways Past Finding Out
  21. 20. Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to God’s Eternal Foreknowledge
  22. 21. Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ
  23. 22. True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ
  24. 23. Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated
  25. 24. Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage
  26. 25. Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used
  27. 26. Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance
  28. 27. The Answer
  29. 28. The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will
  30. 29. Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall
  31. 30. The Incarnation of the Word
  32. 31. The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was Left in His Free Choice
  33. 32. The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation
  34. 33. What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake Good, and the Inability to Sin, to Die, and to Forsake Good?
  35. 34. The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass
  36. 35. There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam
  37. 36. God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So
  38. 37. To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering
  39. 38. What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints
  40. 39. The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined
  41. 40. No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation
  42. 41. Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us
  43. 42. The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind
  44. 43. Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another
  45. 44. In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved
  46. 45. Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have
  47. 46. Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication
  48. 47. Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved
  49. 48. The Purpose of Rebuke
  50. 49. Conclusion

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St Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae 1265–1273 cites it 15 times

I, q. 23, a. 6 · I, q. 23, a. 7 · I, q. 95, a. 1 · I-II, q. 109, a. 2 · I-II, q. 109, a. 4 · I-II, q. 109, a. 8 · I-II, q. 109, a. 10 · II-II, q. 2, a. 5 · II-II, q. 2, a. 7 · II-II, q. 33, a. 2 · II-II, q. 79, a. 1 · II-II, q. 83, a. 7 · II-II, q. 137, a. 4

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Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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