A Treatise concerning man’s perfection in righteousness,

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 Chapter II.—(1.) The First Breviate of Cœlestius.

 (2.) The Second Breviate.

 (3.) The Third Breviate.

 (4.) The Fourth Breviate.

 Chapter III.—(5.) The Fifth Breviate.

 (6.) The Sixth Breviate.

 (7.) The Seventh Breviate.

 (8.) The Eighth Breviate.

 Chapter IV.—(9.) The Ninth Breviate.

 (10.) The Tenth Breviate.

 Chapter V.—(11.) The Eleventh Breviate.

 Chapter VI.—(12.) The Twelfth Breviate.

 (13.) The Thirteenth Breviate.

 (14.) The Fourteenth Breviate.

 (15.) The Fifteenth Breviate.

 Chapter VII.—(16.) The Sixteenth Breviate.

 Chapter VIII.—(17.) It is One Thing to Depart from the Body, Another Thing to Be Liberated from the Body of This Death.

 (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.

 Chapter X.—(21.) To Whom God’s Commandments are Grievous And to Whom, Not. Why Scripture Says that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous A Commandment

 (22.) Passages to Show that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous.

 Chapter XI.—(23.) Passages of Scripture Which, When Objected Against Him by the Catholics, Cœlestius Endeavours to Elude by Other Passages: the First

 (24.) To Be Without Sin, and to Be Without Blame—How Differing.

 (25.) Hence the force of the statement: “There was no injustice in my hands, but my prayer was pure.” For the purity of his prayer arose from this cir

 (26.) Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer.

 (27.) Who May Be Said to Keep the Ways of the Lord What It is to Decline and Depart from the Ways of the Lord.

 (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.

 (30.) “Every Man is a Liar,” Owing to Himself Alone But “Every Man is True,” By Help Only of the Grace of God.

 Chapter XIII.—(31.) The Third Passage. It is One Thing to Depart, and Another Thing to Have Departed, from All Sin. “There is None that Doeth Good,”—O

 Chapter XIV.—(32.) The Fourth Passage. In What Sense God Only is Good. With God to Be Good and to Be Himself are the Same Thing.

 “This,” says he, “is another text of theirs: ‘Who will boast that he has a pure heart?’” And then he answered this with several passages, wishing to s

 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 XVII.—(38.) The Seventh Passage. Who May Be Called Immaculate. How It is that in God’s Sight No Man is Justified.

 Chapter XVIII.—(39.) The Eighth Passage. In What Sense He is Said Not to Sin Who is Born of God. In What Way He Who Sins Shall Not See Nor Know God.

 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.

 Chapter XX.—(43.) No Man is Assisted Unless He Does Himself Also Work. Our Course is a Constant Progress.

 Chapter XXI.—(44.) Conclusion of the Work. In the Regenerate It is Not Concupiscence, But Consent, Which is Sin.

Chapter XI.—(23.) Passages of Scripture Which, When Objected Against Him by the Catholics, Cœlestius Endeavours to Elude by Other Passages: the First Passage.

After this he adduced the passages which are usually quoted against them. He does not attempt to explain these passages, but, by quoting what seem to be contrary ones, he has entangled the questions more tightly. “For,” says he, “there are passages of Scripture which are in opposition to those who ignorantly suppose that they are able to destroy the liberty of the will, or the possibility of not sinning, by the authority of Scripture. For,” he adds, “they are in the habit of quoting against us what holy Job said: ‘Who is pure from uncleanness? Not one; even if he be an infant of only one day upon the earth.’”96    Job xiv. 4, 5. Then he proceeds to give a sort of answer to this passage by help of other quotations; as when Job himself said: “For although I am a righteous and blameless man, I have become a subject for mockery,”97    Job xii. 4.—not understanding that a man may be called righteous, who has gone so far towards perfection in righteousness as to be very near it; and this we do not deny to have been in the power of many even in this life, when they walk in it by faith.

CAPUT XI.

23. Post haec proposuit testimonia quae contra eos dici solent: nec ea solvit, sed commemorando quasi contraria, quaestiones arctius illigavit. Ait enim: «Testimonia Scripturarum, quae e diverso ponenda sunt his qui arbitrii libertatem, vel non peccandi possibilitatem imperite existimant se Scripturarum auctoritate posse destruere. Objicere enim solent,» inquit, «quod sanctus Job dixerit, Quis mundus est a peccato? Nec infans, cujus est unius diei vita super terram» (Job XIV, 4, sec. LXX). Deinde quasi respondet huic testimonio aliis testimoniis, quod ipse Job dixerit, Justus enim vir et sine querela factus sum in derisum (Id. XII, 4, sec. LXX). Non intelligens posse dici hominem justum, qui perfectioni justitiae plurimum accessit, ita ut ei proximus fieret: quod multos etiam in hac vita potuisse, in qua ex fide vivitur, non negamus.