A Treatise concerning man’s perfection in righteousness,
Chapter II.—(1.) The First Breviate of Cœlestius.
Chapter III.—(5.) The Fifth Breviate.
Chapter IV.—(9.) The Ninth Breviate.
Chapter V.—(11.) The Eleventh Breviate.
Chapter VI.—(12.) The Twelfth Breviate.
(13.) The Thirteenth Breviate.
(14.) The Fourteenth Breviate.
Chapter VII.—(16.) The Sixteenth Breviate.
(18.) The Righteousness of This Life Comprehended in Three Parts,—Fasting, Almsgiving, and Prayer.
(19.) The Commandment of Love Shall Be Perfectly Fulfilled in the Life to Come.
Chapter IX.—(20.) Who May Be Said to Walk Without Spot Damnable and Venial Sins.
(22.) Passages to Show that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous.
(24.) To Be Without Sin, and to Be Without Blame—How Differing.
(26.) Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer.
(28.) When Our Heart May Be Said Not to Reproach Us When Good is to Be Perfected.
Chapter XII.—(29.) The Second Passage. Who May Be Said to Abstain from Every Evil Thing.
Chapter XV.—(34.) The Opposing Passages.
(35.) The Church Will Be Without Spot and Wrinkle After the Resurrection.
(36.) The Difference Between the Upright in Heart and the Clean in Heart.
Chapter XVI.—(37.) The Sixth Passage.
Chapter XIX—(40.) The Ninth Passage.
(41.) Specimens of Pelagian Exegesis.
(42.) God’s Promises Conditional. Saints of the Old Testament Were Saved by the Grace of Christ.
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0291Sanctis fratribus et coepiscopis EUTROPIO et PAULO, AUGUSTINUS.
CAPUT PRIMUM.
Charitas vestra, quae in vobis 0292 tanta est, et tam sancta, ut etiam jubenti servire delectet, petivit ut definitionibus quae dicuntur Coelestii esse, respondeam. Sic enim praenotata est eadem 0293 chartula quam dedistis, Definitiones, ut dicitur, Coelestii: quae praenotatio credo, quod non illius, sed eorum sit qui hoc attulerunt de Sicilia, ubi Coelestius non esse perhibetur, sed multi talia garrientes, et, sicut ait Apostolus, ipsi errantes, et alios in errorem mittentes (II Tim. III, 13). Ex illius tamen haec esse doctrina, vel etiam quorumdam sociorum ejus , et nos possumus arbitrari. Nam neque istae breves definitiones, vel potius ratiocinationes, ab illius abhorrent ingenio; quod in opere alio ejus inspexi, cujus eum esse constat auctorem: et non frustra istos fratres qui haec attulerunt, in Sicilia existimo audisse, quod ipse docuerit ista vel scripserit. Vellem autem, si possem, ita obtemperare vestrae fraternae benevolentiae, ut etiam ego tam breviter responderem. Sed nisi et illa commemorem quibus respondeo, quis poterit quemadmodum responderim judicare? Conabor tamen, quantum valuero, adjuvantibus me apud Domini misericordiam etiam orationibus vestris, ut non ultra quam necesse est meus sermo procurrat.