Two letters written by Augustin to Valentinus and the monks of Adrumetum,

 Letter I.

 Letter II.

 On Grace and Free Will, to Valentinus and the Monks with Him

 Chapter 1 [I.]—The Occasion and Argument of This Work.

 Chapter 2 [II.]—He Proves the Existence of Free Will in Man from the Precepts Addressed to Him by God.

 Chapter 3.—Sinners are Convicted When Attempting to Excuse Themselves by Blaming God, Because They Have Free Will.

 Chapter 4.—The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom.

 Chapter 5.—He Shows that Ignorance Affords No Such Excuse as Shall Free the Offender from Punishment But that to Sin with Knowledge is a Graver Thing

 Chapter 6 [IV.]—God’s Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians The Pelagian Heresy Not an Old One.

 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 15.—The Pelagians Profess that the Only Grace Which is Not Given According to Our Merits is that of the Forgiveness of Sins.

 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 20.—The Question Answered. Justification is Grace Simply and Entirely, Eternal Life is Reward and Grace.

 Chapter 21 [IX.]—Eternal Life is “Grace for Grace.”

 Chapter 22 [X.]—Who is the Transgressor of the Law? The Oldness of Its Letter. The Newness of Its Spirit.

 Chapter 23 [XI.]—The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin.

 Chapter 24 [XII.]—Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness. “God’s Righteousness,” So Called, Which Man Has from God.

 Chapter 25 [XIII.]—As The Law is Not, So Neither is Our Nature Itself that Grace by Which We are Christians.

 Chapter 26.—The Pelagians Contend that the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature, Avails Only to the Remission of Past Sins, But Not to the Avoid

 Chapter 27 [XIV.]—Grace Effects the Fulfilment of the Law, the Deliverance of Nature, and the Suppression of Sin’s Dominion.

 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 30.—The Grace by Which the Stony Heart is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts, But by Evil Ones.

 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 33 [XVII.]—A Good Will May Be Small and Weak An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating and Co-operating Grace.

 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 38.—We Would Not Love God Unless He First Loved Us. The Apostles Chose Christ Because They Were Chosen They Were Not Chosen Because They Chos

 Chapter 39.—The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God.

 Chapter 40 [XIX.]—The Ignorance of the Pelagians in Maintaining that the Knowledge of the Law Comes from God, But that Love Comes from Ourselves.

 Chapter 41 [XX.]—The Wills of Men are So Much in the Power of God, that He Can Turn Them Whithersoever It Pleases Him.

 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 45 [XXIII]—The Reason Why One Person is Assisted by Grace, and Another is Not Helped, Must Be Referred to the Secret Judgments of God.

 Chapter 46 [XXIV.]—Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God.

Chapter 36.—Love Commended by Our Lord Himself.

Moreover, the Lord Jesus Himself teaches us that the whole law and the prophets hang upon the two precepts of love to God and love to our neighbour. Concerning these two commandments the following is written in the Gospel according to St. Mark: “And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him: Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him: The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel! the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.245    Deut. vi. 4, 5. This is the first commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.246    Lev. xix. 18. There is none other commandment greater than these.”247    Mark xii. 28–31. Also, in the Gospel according to St. John, He says, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love to one another.”248    John xiii. 34, 35.

36. Dicit etiam ipse Dominus Jesus, in duobus praeceptis dilectionis Dei et dilectionis proximi totam Legem Prophetasque pendere (Matth. XXII, 40). De quibus duobus praeceptis in Evangelio secundum Marcum scriptum est: Et accessit unus de scribis qui audierat illos perquirentes, et videns quoniam illis bene responderit, interrogavit eum quod esset primum omnium mandatum. Jesus autem respondit ei: Primum omnium mandatum est, Audi, Israel, Dominus Deus tuus Deus unus est; et, Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex tota mente tua: hoc est primum mandatum. Secundum autem simile illi: Diliges proximum tuum tanquam teipsum. Majus horum aliud non est mandatum (Marc. XII, 28-31). Dicit etiam in Evangelio secundum Joannem: Mandatum novum do vobis, ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos, ut et vos diligatis invicem. In hoc cognoscent omnes quia discipuli mei estis, si dilectionem habueritis ad invicem (Joan. XIII, 34, 35).