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Enchiridion

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.3

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1. The Author Desires the Gift of True Wisdom for Laurentius
2. The Fear of God is Man’s True Wisdom
3. God is to Be Worshipped Through Faith, Hope, and Love
4. The Questions Propounded by Laurentius
5. Brief Answers to These Questions
6. Controversy Out of Place in a Handbook Like the Present
The Creed and the Lord’s Prayer Demand the Exercise of Faith, Hope, and Love
The Distinction Between Faith and Hope, and the Mutual Dependence of Faith, Hope, and Love
What We are to Believe. In Regard to Nature It is Not Necessary for the Christian to Know…
10. The Supremely Good Creator Made All Things Good
What is Called Evil in the Universe is But the Absence of Good
All Beings Were Made Good, But Not Being Made Perfectly Good, are Liable to Corruption
There Can Be No Evil Where There is No Good; And an Evil Man is an Evil Good
Good and Evil are an Exception to the Rule that Contrary Attributes Cannot Be Predicated…
The Preceding Argument is in No Wise Inconsistent with the Saying of Our Lord: “A Good…
It is Not Essential to Man’s Happiness that He Should Know the Causes of Physical…
The Nature of Error. All Error is Not Hurtful, Though It is Man’s Duty as Far as Possible…
It is Never Allowable to Tell a Lie; But Lies Differ Very Much in Guilt, According to the…
Men’s Errors Vary Very Much in the Magnitude of the Evils They Produce; But Yet Every…
Every Error is Not a Sin. An Examination of the Opinion of the Academic Philosophers,…
21. Error, Though Not Always a Sin, is Always an Evil
22. A Lie is Not Allowable, Even to Save Another from Injury
23. Summary of the Results of the Preceding Discussion
24. The Secondary Causes of Evil are Ignorance and Lust
God’s Judgments Upon Fallen Men and Angels. The Death of the Body is Man’s Peculiar…
Through Adam’s Sin His Whole Posterity Were Corrupted, and Were Born Under the Penalty of…
The State of Misery to Which Adam’s Sin Reduced Mankind, and the Restoration Effected…
When the Rebellious Angels Were Cast Out, the Rest Remained in the Enjoyment of Eternal…
The Restored Part of Humanity Shall, in Accordance with the Promises of God, Succeed to…
Men are Not Saved by Good Works, Nor by the Free Determination of Their Own Will, But by…
Faith Itself is the Gift of God; And Good Works Will Not Be Wanting in Those Who Believe
The Freedom of the Will is Also the Gift of God, for God Worketh in Us Both to Will and…
Men, Being by Nature the Children of Wrath, Needed a Mediator. In What Sense God is Said…
The Ineffable Mystery of the Birth of Christ the Mediator Through the Virgin Mary
Jesus Christ, Being the Only Son of God, is at the Same Time Man
The Grace of God is Clearly and Remarkably Displayed in Raising the Man Christ Jesus to…
The Same Grace is Further Clearly Manifested in This, that the Birth of Christ According…
Jesus Christ, According to the Flesh, Was Not Born of the Holy Spirit in Such a Sense…
Not Everything that is Born of Another is to Be Called a Son of that Other
Christ’s Birth Through the Holy Spirit Manifests to Us the Grace of God
Christ, Who Was Himself Free from Sin, Was Made Sin for Us, that We Might Be Reconciled…
The Sacrament of Baptism Indicates Our Death with Christ to Sin, and Our Resurrection…
Baptism and the Grace Which It Typifies are Open to All, Both Infants and Adults
In Speaking of Sin, the Singular Number is Often Put for the Plural, and the Plural for…
45. In Adam’s First Sin, Many Kinds of Sin Were Involved
It is Probable that Children are Involved in the Guilt Not Only of the First Pair, But of…
It is Difficult to Decide Whether the Sins of a Man’s Other Progenitors are Imputed to Him
The Guilt of the First Sin is So Great that It Can Be Washed Away Only in the Blood of…
Christ Was Not Regenerated in the Baptism of John, But Submitted to It to Give Us an…
Christ Took Away Not Only the One Original Sin, But All the Other Sins that Have Been…
All Men Born of Adam are Under Condemnation, and Only If New Born in Christ are Freed…
In Baptism, Which is the Similitude of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, All, Both…
Christ’s Cross and Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Sitting Down at the Right Hand of…
Christ’s Second Coming Does Not Belong to the Past, But Will Take Place at the End of the…
The Expression, “Christ Shall Judge the Quick and the Dead,” May Be Understood in Either…
The Holy Spirit and the Church. The Church is the Temple of God
57. The Condition of the Church in Heaven
We Have No Certain Knowledge of the Organization of the Angelic Society
The Bodies Assumed by Angels Raise a Very Difficult, and Not Very Useful, Subject of…
It is More Necessary to Be Able to Detect the Wiles of Satan When He Transforms Himself…
The Church on Earth Has Been Redeemed from Sin by the Blood of a Mediator
By the Sacrifice of Christ All Things are Restored, and Peace is Made Between Earth and…
The Peace of God, Which Reigneth in Heaven, Passeth All Understanding
Pardon of Sin Extends Over the Whole Mortal Life of the Saints, Which, Though Free from…
God Pardons Sins, But on Condition of Penitence, Certain Times for Which Have Been Fixed…
The Pardon of Sin Has Reference Chiefly to the Future Judgment
67. Faith Without Works is Dead, and Cannot Save a Man
The True Sense of the Passage (I Cor. III. 11-15) About Those Who are Saved, Yet So as by…
It is Not Impossible that Some Believers May Pass Through a Purgatorial Fire in the…
Almsgiving Will Not Atone for Sin Unless the Life Be Changed
The Daily Prayer of the Believer Makes Satisfaction for the Trivial Sins that Daily Stain…
There are Many Kinds of Alms, the Giving of Which Assists to Procure Pardon for Our Sins
The Greatest of All Alms is to Forgive Our Debtors and to Love Our Enemies
God Does Not Pardon the Sins of Those Who Do Not from the Heart Forgive Others
The Wicked and the Unbelieving are Not Made Clean by the Giving of Alms, Except They Be…
To Give Alms Aright, We Should Begin with Ourselves, and Have Pity Upon Our Own Souls
If We Would Give Alms to Ourselves, We Must Flee Iniquity; For He Who Loveth Iniquity…
What Sins are Trivial and What Heinous is a Matter for God’s Judgment
Sins Which Appear Very Trifling, are Sometimes in Reality Very Serious
Sins, However Great and Detestable, Seem Trivial When We are Accustomed to Them
There are Two Causes of Sin, Ignorance and Weakness; And We Need Divine Help to Overcome…
82. The Mercy of God is Necessary to True Repentance
The Man Who Despises the Mercy of God is Guilty of the Sin Against the Holy Ghost
The Resurrection of the Body Gives Rise to Numerous Questions
85. The Case of Abortive Conceptions
If They Have Ever Lived, They Must of Course Have Died, and Therefore Shall Have a Share…
87. The Case of Monstrous Births
88. The Material of the Body Never Perishes
But This Material May Be Differently Arranged in the Resurrection Body
If There Be Differences and Inequalities Among the Bodies of Those Who Rise Again, There…
The Bodies of the Saints Shall at Title Resurrection Be Spiritual Bodies
92. The Resurrection of the Lost
Both the First and the Second Deaths are the Consequence of Sin. Punishment is…
The Saints Shall Know More Fully in the Next World the Benefits They Have Received by…
95. God’s Judgments Shall Then Be Explained
96. The Omnipotent God Does Well Even in the Permission of Evil
In What Sense Does the Apostle Say that “God Will Have All Men to Be Saved,” When, as a…
Predestination to Eternal Life is Wholly of God’s Free Grace
As God’s Mercy is Free, So His Judgments are Just, and Cannot Be Gainsaid
The Will of God is Never Defeated, Though Much is Done that is Contrary to His Will
The Will of God, Which is Always Good, is Sometimes Fulfilled Through the Evil Will of Man
The Will of the Omnipotent God is Never Defeated, and is Never Evil
Interpretation of the Expression in I Tim. II. 4: “Who Will Have. All Men to Be Saved.”
God, Foreknowing the Sin of the First Man, Ordered His Own Purposes Accordingly
Man Was So Created as to Be Able to Choose Either Good or Evil: In the Future Life, the…
The Grace of God Was Necessary to Man’s Salvation Before the Fall as Well as After It
Eternal Life, Though the Reward of Good Works, is Itself the Gift of God
A Mediator Was Necessary to Reconcile Us to God; And Unless This Mediator Had Been God,…
The State of the Soul During the Interval Between Death and the Resurrection
The Benefit to the Souls of the Dead from the Sacraments and Alms of Their Living Friends
After the Resurrection There Shall Be Two Distinct Kingdoms, One of Eternal Happiness,…
There is No Ground in Scripture for the Opinion of Those Who Deny the Eternity of Future…
The Death of the Wicked Shall Be Eternal in the Same Sense as the Life of the Saints
Having Dealt with Faith, We Now Come to Speak of Hope. Everything that Pertains to Hope…
The Seven Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, According to Matthew
Luke Expresses the Substance of These Seven Petitions More Briefly in Five
Love, Which is Greater Than Faith and Hope, is Shed Abroad in Our Hearts by the Holy Ghost
The Four Stages of the Christian’s Life, and the Four Corresponding Stages of the…
The Grace of Regeneration Washes Away All Past Sin and All Original Guilt
Death Cannot Injure Those Who Have Received the Grace of Regeneration
Love is the End of All the Commandments, and God Himself is Love
122. Conclusion