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On Grace and Free Will
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.5
- Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
- 1. Letter 1 to Valentinus
- 2. Letter 2 to Valentinus and the Monks with Him
- 1. The Occasion and Argument of This Work
- Proves the Existence of Free Will in Man from the Precepts Addressed to Him by God
- Sinners are Convicted When Attempting to Excuse Themselves by Blaming God, Because They…
- The Divine Commands Which are Most Suited to the Will Itself Illustrate Its Freedom
- He Shows that Ignorance Affords No Such Excuse as Shall Free the Offender from…
- God’s Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians; The Pelagian Heresy Not an Old One
- 7. Grace is Necessary Along with Free Will to Lead a Good Life
- 8. Conjugal Chastity is Itself the Gift of God
- 9. Entering into Temptation. Prayer is a Proof of Grace
- 10. Free Will and God’s Grace are Simultaneously Commended
- 11. Other Passages of Scripture Which the Pelagians Abuse
- He Proves Out of St. Paul that Grace is Not Given According to Men’s Merits
- The Grace of God is Not Given According to Merit, But Itself Makes All Good Desert
- 14. Paul First Received Grace that He Might Win the Crown
- The Pelagians Profess that the Only Grace Which is Not Given According to Our Merits is…
- Paul Fought, But God Gave the Victory: He Ran, But God Showed Mercy
- 17. ·-The Faith that He Kept Was the Free Gift of God
- 18. Faith Without Good Works is Not Sufficient for Salvation
- How is Eternal Life Both a Reward for Service and a Free Gift of Grace?
- The Question Answered. Justification is Grace Simply and Entirely, Eternal Life is Reward…
- 21. Eternal Life is “Grace for Grace.”
- Who is the Transgressor of the Law? The Oldness of Its Letter. The Newness of Its Spirit
- The Pelagians Maintain that the Law is the Grace of God Which Helps Us Not to Sin
- Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness.” God’s Righteousness,” So…
- As the Law is Not, So Neither is Our Nature Itself that Grace by Which We are Christians
- The Pelagians Contend that the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature, Avails Only to…
- Grace Effects the Fulfilment of the Law, the Deliverance of Nature, and the Suppression…
- 28. Faith is the Gift of God
- God is Able to Convert Opposing Wills, and to Take Away from the Heart Its Hardness
- The Grace by Which the Stony Heart is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts, But by…
- Free Will Has Its Function in the Heart’s Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its
- In What Sense It is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s Commandments
- A Good Will May Be Small and Weak; An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating and Cooperating…
- The Apostle’s Eulogy of Love. Correction to Be Administered with Love
- 35. Commendations of Love
- 36. Love Commended by Our Lord Himself
- The Love Which Fulfils the Commandments is Not of Ourselves, But of God
- We Would Not Love God Unless He First Loved Us. The Apostles Chose Christ Because They…
- 39. The Spirit of Fear a Great Gift of God
- The Ignorance of the Pelagians in Maintaining that the Knowledge of the Law Comes from…
- The Wills of Men are So Much in the Power of God, that He Can Turn Them Whithersoever It…
- God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men
- God Operates on Men’s Hearts: To Incline Their Wills Whithersoever He Pleases
- 44. Gratuitous Grace Exemplified in Infants
- Thereason Way One Person is Assisted by Grace, and Another is Not Helped, Must Be…
- 46. Understanding and Wisdom Must Be Sought from God