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.
(6.) The Sixth Breviate.
VI. “Again,” he says, “we have to inquire whether man is commanded to be without sin; for either he is not able, and then he is not commanded; or else because he is commanded, he is able. For why should that be commanded which cannot at all be done?” The answer is, that man is most wisely commanded to walk with right steps, on purpose that, when he has discovered his own inability to do even this, he may seek the remedy which is provided for the inward man to cure the lameness of sin, even the grace of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ratiocinatio 6. Iterum, ait, quaerendum est, utrumne praeceptum sit homini sine peccato esse. Aut enim non potest, et praeceptum non est: aut quia praeceptum est, potest. Nam quid praeciperetur, quod fieri omnino non posset? Respondetur, consultissime homini praecipi ut rectis passibus ambulet, ut cum se non posse perspexerit, medicinam requirat, quae interioris hominis ad sanandam peccati claudicationem, gratia Dei est per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.