A TREATISE ON GRACE AND FREE WILL

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A Treatise On Grace And Free Will

Synopsis
Chapter 1: The Occasion And Argument Of This Work
Chapter 2: 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 Than To Sin In Ignorance
Chapter 6: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Eternal Life Is “Grace For Grace.”
Chapter 22: Who Is The Transgressor Of The Law? The Oldness Of Its Letter. The Newness Of Its Spirit
Chapter 23: The Pelagians Maintain That The Law Is The Grace Of God Which Helps Us Not To Sin
Chapter 24: Who May Be Said To Wish To Establish Their Own Righteousness. “God’s Righteousness,” So Called, Which Man Has From God
Chapter 25: 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 Avoidance Of Future Ones
Chapter 27: Grace Effects The Fulfillment 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: Free Will Has Its Function In The Heart’s Conversion; But Grace Too Has Its
Chapter 32: In What Sense It Is Rightly Said That, If We Like, We May Keep God’s Commandments
Chapter 33: A Good Will May Be Small And Weak; An Ample Will, Great Love. Operating And Cooperating 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: The Love Which Fulfills 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 Chose Christ
Chapter 39: The Spirit Of Fear A Great Gift Of God
Chapter 40: The Ignorance Of The Pelagians In Maintaining That The Knowledge Of The Law Comes From God, But That Love Comes From Ourselves
Chapter 41: The Wills Of Men Are So Much In The Power Of God, That He Can Turn Them Whithersoever It Pleases Him
Chapter 42: 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: Gratuitous Grace Exemplified In Infants
Chapter 45: The Reason Way One Person Is Assisted By Grace, And Another Is Not Helped, Must Be Referred To The Secret Judgments Of God
Chapter 46: Understanding And Wisdom Must Be Sought From God