A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius.

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Contents 69 sections

Title Page.Front matter
Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
Argument.
Introduction.
The First Item in the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Answer.
Discussion of Pelagius’ First Answer.
The Same Continued.
The Second Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
Pelagius’ Answer Examined.
Section 10 — The Same Continued.
Section 11 — The Same Continued.
The Third Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
Pelagius’ Answer Examined. On Origen’s Error Concerning the Non-Eternity of the Punishment of the Devil and the Damned.
The Same Continued.
The Fourth Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
The Fifth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer.
Examination of This Point. The Phrase ‘Old Testament’ Used in Two Senses. The Heir of the Old Testament. In the Old Testament There Were Heirs of the New Testament.
The Same Continued.
The Sixth Item of the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Reply.
Examination of the Sixth Charge and Answers.
Section 21 — The Same Continued.
Section 22 — The Same Continued.
The Same Continued. Pelagius Acknowledges the Doctrine of Grace in Deceptive Terms.
The Same Continued.
The Same Continued. The Synod Supposed that the Grace Acknowledged by Pelagius Was that Which Was So Thoroughly Known to the Church.
The Seventh Item of the Accusation: the Breviates of Cœlestius Objected to Pelagius.
Pelagius’ Answer to the Charges Brought Together Under the Seventh Item.
The Pelagians Falsely Pretended that the Eastern Churches Were on Their Side.
The Accusations in the Seventh Item, Which Pelagius Confessed.
The Eighth Item in the Accusation.
Pelagius’ Reply to the Eighth Item of Accusation.
The Ninth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Reply.
The Tenth Item in the Accusation. The More Prominent Points of Cœlestius’ Work Continued.
Remarks on the Tenth Item.
The Eleventh Item of the Accusation.
Discussion of the Eleventh Item Continued.
The Same Continued. On the Works of Unbelievers; Faith is the Initial Principle from Which Good Works Have Their Beginning; Faith is the Gift of God’s Grace.
The Same Continued.
The Same Continued. The Monk Pelagius. Grace is Conferred on the Unworthy.
The Same Continued. John, Bishop of Jerusalem, and His Examination.
The Same Continued.
The Same Continued. Heros and Lazarus; Orosius.
The Same Continued.
Augustin Indulgently Shows that the Judges Acted Incautiously in Their Official Conduct of the Case of Pelagius.
The Twelfth Item in the Accusation. Other Heads of Cœlestius’ Doctrine Abjured by Pelagius.
The Answer of the Monk Pelagius and His Profession of Faith.
The Acquittal of Pelagius.
Pelagius’ Acquittal Becomes Suspected.
How Pelagius Became Known to Augustin; Cœlestius Condemned at Carthage.
Pelagius’ Book, Which Was Sent by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin, Was Answered by the Latter in His Work 'On Nature and Grace.'
A Letter Written by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin on Receiving His Treatise 'On Nature and Grace.'
Pelagius’ Behaviour Contrasted with that of the Writers of the Letter.
Pelagius Has No Good Reason to Be Annoyed If His Name Be at Last Used in the Controversy, and He Be Expressly Refuted.
The Nature of Augustin’s Letter to Pelagius.
The Text of the Letter.
Pelagius’ Use of Recommendations.
On the Letter of Pelagius, in Which He Boasts that His Errors Had Been Approved by Fourteen Bishops.
Pelagius’ Letter Discussed.
Is Pelagius Sincere?
Fraudulent Practices Pursued by Pelagius in His Report of the Proceedings in Palestine, in the Paper Wherein He Defended Himself to Augustin.
The Same Continued.
Although Pelagius Was Acquitted, His Heresy Was Condemned.
The Synod’s Condemnation of His Doctrines.
History of the Pelagian Heresy. The Pelagian Heresy Was Raised by Sundry Persons Who Affected the Monastic State.
The History Continued. Cœlestius Condemned at Carthage by Episcopal Judgment. Pelagius Acquitted by Bishops in Palestine, in Consequence of His Deceptive Answers; But Yet His Heresy Was Condemned by Them.
The Same Continued. The Dogmas of Cœlestius Laid to the Charge of Pelagius, as His Master, and Condemned.
How the Bishops Cleared Pelagius of Those Charges.
Recapitulation of What Pelagius Condemned.
The Harsh Measures of the Pelagians Against the Holy Monks and Nuns Who Belonged to Jerome’s Charge.

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