A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness.

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Contents 47 sections

Title Page.Front matter
Argument.
Introduction.
The First Breviate of Cœlestius.
The Second Breviate.
The Third Breviate.
The Fourth Breviate.
The Fifth Breviate.
The Sixth Breviate.
The Seventh Breviate.
The Eighth Breviate.
The Ninth Breviate.
The Tenth Breviate.
The Eleventh Breviate.
The Twelfth Breviate.
The Thirteenth Breviate.
The Fourteenth Breviate.
The Fifteenth Breviate.
The Sixteenth Breviate.
It is One Thing to Depart from the Body, Another Thing to Be Liberated from the Body of This Death.
The Righteousness of This Life Comprehended in Three Parts,—Fasting, Almsgiving, and Prayer.
The Commandment of Love Shall Be Perfectly Fulfilled in the Life to Come.
Who May Be Said to Walk Without Spot; Damnable and Venial Sins.
To Whom God’s Commandments are Grievous; And to Whom, Not. Why Scripture Says that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous; A Commandment is a Proof of the Freedom Of Man’s Will; Prayer is a Proof of Grace.
Passages to Show that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous.
Passages of Scripture Which, When Objected Against Him by the Catholics, Cœlestius Endeavours to Elude by Other Passages: the First Passage.
To Be Without Sin, and to Be Without Blame—How Differing.
Section 25
Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer.
Who May Be Said to Keep the Ways of the Lord; What It is to Decline and Depart from the Ways of the Lord.
When Our Heart May Be Said Not to Reproach Us; When Good is to Be Perfected.
The Second Passage. Who May Be Said to Abstain from Every Evil Thing.
'Every Man is a Liar,' Owing to Himself Alone; But 'Every Man is True,' By Help Only of the Grace of God.
The Third Passage. It is One Thing to Depart, and Another Thing to Have Departed, from All Sin. ‘There is None that Doeth Good,’—Of Whom This is to Be Understood.
The Fourth Passage. In What Sense God Only is Good. With God to Be Good and to Be Himself are the Same Thing.
The Fifth Passage.
The Opposing Passages.
The Church Will Be Without Spot and Wrinkle After the Resurrection.
The Difference Between the Upright in Heart and the Clean in Heart.
The Sixth Passage.
The Seventh Passage. Who May Be Called Immaculate. How It is that in God’s Sight No Man is Justified.
The Eighth Passage. In What Sense He is Said Not to Sin Who is Born of God. In What Way He Who Sins Shall Not See Nor Know God.
The Ninth Passage.
Specimens of Pelagian Exegesis.
God’s Promises Conditional. Saints of the Old Testament Were Saved by the Grace of Christ.
No Man is Assisted Unless He Does Himself Also Work. Our Course is a Constant Progress.
Conclusion of the Work. In the Regenerate It is Not Concupiscence, But Consent, Which is Sin.

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