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Augustine of Hippo, A Treatise On Grace And Free Will
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Two letters written by Augustin to Valentinus and the monks of Adrumetum,
On Grace and Free Will, to Valentinus and the Monks with Him
Chapter 1 [I.]—The Occasion and Argument of This Work.
Chapter 4.—The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom.
Chapter 7.—Grace is Necessary Along with Free Will to Lead a Good Life.
Chapter 8.—Conjugal Chastity is Itself the Gift of God.
Chapter 9.—Entering into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace.
Chapter 10 [V.]—Free Will and God’s Grace are Simultaneously Commended.
Chapter 11.—Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse.
Chapter 12.—He Proves Out of St. Paul that Grace is Not Given According to Men’s Merits.
Chapter 13 [VI.]—The Grace of God is Not Given According to Merit, But Itself Makes All Good Desert.
Chapter 14.—Paul First Received Grace that He Might Win the Crown.
Chapter 16 [VII.]—Paul Fought, But God Gave the Victory: He Ran, But God Showed Mercy.
Chapter 17.—The Faith that He Kept Was the Free Gift of God.
Chapter 18.—Faith Without Good Works is Not Sufficient for Salvation.
Chapter 19 [VIII.]—How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
Chapter 21 [IX.]—Eternal Life is “Grace for Grace.”
Chapter 23 [XI.]—The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin.
Chapter 28.—Faith is the Gift of God.
Chapter 29.—God is Able to Convert Opposing Wills, and to Take Away from the Heart Its Hardness.
Chapter 31 [XV.]—Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart’s Conversion But Grace Too Has Its.
Chapter 32 [XVI.]—In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s Commandments.
Chapter 34.—The Apostle’s Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered with Love.
Chapter 35.—Commendations of Love.
Chapter 36.—Love Commended by Our Lord Himself.
Chapter 37 [XVIII.]—The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God.
Chapter 39.—The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God.
Chapter 42 [XXI]—God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men.
Chapter 43.—God Operates on Men’s Hearts to Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases.
Chapter 44 [XXII.]—Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants.
Chapter 46 [XXIV.]—Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God.
On Grace and Free Will, to Valentinus and the Monks with Him
S. AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI DE GRATIA ET LIBERO ARBITRIO AD VALENTINUM ET CUM ILLO MONACHOS Liber unus .
Docet cavendum esse, ne vel gratia negato libero arbitrio, vel negata gratia liberum arbitrium defendatur: nam liberum voluntatis arbitrium inesse homini, constare ex Scripturarum testimoniis; de ipsa etiam gratia Dei, sine qua nihil boni agere possumus, data esse in iisdem Scripturis divina documenta. Postea contra Pelagianos probat gratiam non secundum merita nostra dari. Explicat quomodo vita aeterna, quae bonis operibus redditur, vere sit gratia. Tum vero monstrat quod neque scientia legis, neque natura, neque sola remissio peccatorum sit illa gratia quae per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum datur, sed ipsa gratia faciat ut lex impleatur, ut natura liberetur, ne peccatum dominetur. Expugnat vanum illud Pelagianorum perfugium, quo dicunt, «gratiam, etsi non secundum merita bonorum operum detur, tamen dari secundum merita bonae voluntatis, quae praecedit, credentis et orantis.» Incidit in quaestionem, cur Deus jubet quod ipse daturus est; et an jubeat aliqua quae non possumus. Charitatem, sine qua praecepta non implentur, non in nobis nisi ex ipso Deo esse convincit. Ostendit operari Deum in cordibus hominum ad inclinandas eorum voluntates quocumque voluerit, sive ad bona pro sua misericordia, sive ad mala pro meritis eorum, judicio utique suo aliquando aperto, aliquando occulto, semper tamen justo. Tandem gratuitae gratiae nec meritis redditae luculentum exemplum suppetere in iis parvulis qui salvantur, dum alii unam cum ipsis causam habentes pereunt.