EXTRACT FROM AUGUSTIN'S "RETRACTATIONS,” BOOK II. CHAP. 61, ON THE FOLLOWING TREATISE, "CONTRA DUAS EPISTOLAS PELAGIANORUM." THEN follow four books which I wrote to Boni- | me, finding in them a calumnious mention of my face, bishop of the Roman Church, in opposi- name. This work commences on this wise: “I tion to two letters of the Pelagians, because when had indeed known you by the praise of your they came into his hands he had sent them to renowned fame." 374 CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE AGAINST TWO LETTERS OF THE PELAGIANS." 4. 3. WHY HE ADDRESSES HIS BOOK TO BONIFACE CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: ADDRESS TO BONIFACE 2. WHY HERETICAL WRITINGS MUST BE ANSWERED 9. LAW ANOTHER CALUMNY OF JULIAN, - THAT IT IS SAID THAT MARRIAGE IS NOT APPOINTED BY GOD". THE THIRD CALUMNY, THE ASSERTION THAT CONJUGAL INTERCOURSE IS CONDEMNED 11. THE PURPOSE OF THE THE CALUMNY OF JULIAN, THAT THE CATHOLICS TEACH THAT FREE WILL IS TAKEN AWAY BY ADAM'S SIN 5. FREE CHOICE DID NOT PERISH WITH ADAM'S SIN. WHAT FREEDOM DID PERISH 377 377 378 378 378 379 379 379 PELAGIANS IN PRAISING THE INNOCENCE OF CONJUGAL INTERCOURSE 380 THAT THE SAINTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ARE SAID TO BE NOT FREE FROM SINS THAT IT IS SAID THAT PAUL AND THE REST of the Apo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to the OPINIONS OF CATholic believers. 30. SECONDLY, OF MARRIAGE 32. THE APRONS WHICH ADAM AND EVE WORE. 35. DESIRE IN PARADISE WAS EITHER NONE AT ALL, OR IT WAS OBEDIENT to the IMPULSE OF THE WILL 36. JULIAN'S Fourth objectioN, THAT MAN IS GOD'S WORK, AND IS NOT CONSTRAINED TO Evil or good by His power THE BEGINNING OF A GOOD WILL IS THE GIFT OF GRACE. 384 384 385 385 FIRST OF ALL, OF FREE WILL 386 42. HE REBUTS THE CONCLUSION OF JULIAN'S LETTER THE SIXTH OBJECTION, CONCERNING THE NECESSITY OF GRACE for all, and cONCERNING THE BAPTISM OF INFANTS 41. THE SEVENTH OBJECTION, OF THE EFFECT OF BAPTISM HOW FAR THE MANICHEANS AND PELAGIANS ARE JOINED IN ERROR; HOW FAR THEY ARE SEPARATED INTRODUCTION; THE PELAGIANS IMPEACH CATHOLICS AS MANICHEANS. 2. THE HERESIES OF THE MANICHEANS AND PELAGIANS ARE MUTUALLY opposed, and are ALIKE REPROBATED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 391 392 392 392 6. WHAT WAS DONE IN THE CASE OF CELESTIUS AND ZOSIMUS 392 393 394 394 10. 11. WHY THE PELAGIANS FALSELY ACCUSE CATHOLICS OF MAINTAINING FATE UNDER THE NAME OF GRACE 395 395 395 395 397 16. 17. THE PELAGIANS ARE REFUTED BY THE CASE OF THE TWIN INFANTS DYING, THE one after, and THE OTHER WITHOUT, THE GRACE OF BAPTISM EVEN THE DESIRE OF AN IMPERFECT GOOD IS A GIFT OF GRACE, OTHERWISE GRACE would be GIVEN ACCORDING TO MERITS, 399 18. THE DESIRE OF GOOD IS GOD'S GIFT. 398 BOOK III. CHAPTER 2. THE MISREPRESENTATION OF THE PELAGIANS CONCERNING The use of THE OLD LAW 3. SCRIPTURAL CONFIRMATION OF THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE 4. 5. MISREPRESENTATION CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF BAPTISM. BAPTISM PUTS AWAY ALL SINS, BUT IT DOES NOT AT ONCE HEAL ALL INFIRMITIES. 7. THE NEW TESTAMENT IS MORE ANCIENT THAN THE OLD; BUT IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY REVEALED 8. 10. THE OLD LAW ALSO GIVEN by God II. DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF THE OLD AND OF THE NEW TESTAMENTS THE OLD TESTAMENT IS PROPERLY ONE THING THE OLD INSTRUMENT ANOTHER 13. WHY ONE OF THE COVENANTS IS CALLed old, the OTHER NEW 12. 14. CALUMNY CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES 15. THE PERFECTION OF APOSTLES AND PROPHETS 16. 17. 18. MISREPRESENTATION CONCERNING SIN IN CHRIST. THEIR CALUMNY ABOUT THE FULFILMENT OF PRECEPTS IN THE LIFE TO COME PERFECTION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND FULL SECURITY WAS NOT EVEN IN PAUL IN THIS LIFE 19. IN WHAT SENSE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MAN IN THIS LIFE IS SAID TO BE PERFECT WHY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF THE LAW IS VALUED SLIGHTLY BY PAUL THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NEVER PERFECTED IN THIS LIFE 20. 21. 22. NATURE OF HUMAN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PERFECTION. 23. THERE IS NO TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT THE FAITH OF THE GRACE OF CHRIST 24. THERE ARE THREE PRINCIPAL HEADS IN THE PELAGIAN HERESY REFUTES BOTH 25. HE SHOWS THAT THE OPINION OF THE CATHOLICS IS THE MEAN BETWEEN THAT OF THE MANICHEANS AND PELAGIANS, AND 26. THE PELAGIANS STILL STRIVE after a hiding-PLACE, BY INTRODUCING THE NEEDLESS QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUL. CHAPTER BOOK IV. I. THE SUBTERFuges of the PELAGIANS ARre five. 2. THE PRAISE OF THE CREATURE. 3. THE CATHOLICS PRAISE NATURE, MARRIAGE, law, free will, and the SAINTS, IN SUCH WISE AS TO CONDEMN AS WELL PELAGIANS AS MANICHEANS 13. GOD'S PURPOSES ARE EFFECTS OF GRACE 14. THE TESTIMONIES OF SCRIPTURE IN FAVOUR OF GRACE 15. FROM SUCH Scriptures GRACE IS PROVED TO BE GRATUITOUS AND EFffectual 16. WHY GOD MAKES OF SOME SHEEP, OTHERS NOT. CYPRIAN'S TESTIMONIES CONCERNING THE IMPERFECTION OF OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS 28. CYPRIAN'S ORTHODOXY UNDOUBted. 29. THE TESTIMONIES OF AMBROSE AGAINST THE PELAGIANS, AND FIRST OF ALL CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN 30. THE TESTIMONIES OF AMBROSE CONCERNING GOD's Grace 31. THE TESTIMONIES OF AMBROSE ON THE IMPERFECTION OF PRESENT RIGHTEOUSNESS 32. THE PELAGIAN'S HERESY AROSE LONG AFTER AMBROSE 34. THE CALLING TOGETHER OF A SYNOD NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO THE CONDEMNATION OF HERESIES |