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On the Predestination of the Saints

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.5

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1. Introduction
2. To What Extent the Massilians Withdraw from the Pelagians
3. Even the Beginning of Faith is of God’s Gift
4. Continuation of the Preceding
5. To Believe is to Think with Assent
6. Presumption and Arrogance to Be Avoided
Augustin Confesses that He Had Formerly Been in Error Concerning the Grace of God
What Augustin Wrote to Simplicianus, the Successor of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
9. The Purpose of the Apostle in These Words
It is God’s Grace Which Specially Distinguishes One Man from Another
11. That Some Men are Elected is of God’s Mercy
Why the Apostle Said that We are Justified by Faith and Not by Works
13. The Effect of Divine Grace
Why the Father Does Not Teach All that They May Come to Christ
15. It is Believers that are Taught of God
16. Why the Gift of Faith is Not Given to All
His Argument in His Letter Against Porphyry, as to Why the Gospel Came So Late into the…
18. The Preceding Argument Applied to the Present Time
19. In What Respects Predestination and Grace Differ
Did God Promise the Good Works of the Nations and Not Their Faith, to Abraham?
It is to Be Wondered at that Men Should Rather Trust to Their Own Weakness Than to God’s…
22. God’s Promise is Sure
Remarkable Illustrations of Grace and Predestination in Infants, and in Christ
That No One is Judged According to What He Would Have Done If He Had Lived Longer
Possibly the Baptized Infants Would Have Repented If They Had Lived, and the Unbaptized…
26. Reference to Cyprian’s Treatise “On the Mortality.”
The Book of Wisdom Obtains in the Church the Authority of Canonical Scripture
28. Cyprian’s Treatise “On the Mortality.”
God’s Dealing Does Not Depend Upon Any Contingent Merits of Men
The Most Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus
31. Christ Predestinated to Be the Son of God
32. The Twofold Calling
It is in the Power of Evil Men to Sin; But to Do This or that by Means
The Special Calling of the Elect is Not Because They Have Believed, But in Order that…
35. Election is for the Purpose of Holiness
God Chose the Righteous; Not Those Whom He Foresaw as Being of Themselves, But Those Whom…
We Were Elected and Predestinated, Not Because We Were Going to Be Holy, But in Order…
What is the View of the Pelagians, and What of the Semi-Pelagians, Concerning…
39. The Beginning of Faith is God’s Gift
Apostolic Testimony to the Beginning of Faith Being God’s Gift
41. Further Apostolic Testimonies
42. Old Testament Testimonies
43. Conclusion