A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace.

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Contents 52 sections

Title Page.Front matter
Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.
Argument.
Introductory.
The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will.
What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is.
The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God.
Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected.
Objections to the Use of Rebuke.
The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke.
Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke.
Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received the Grace of Obedience.
All Perseverance is God’s Gift.
They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned.
They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost.
Election is of Grace, Not of Merit.
None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish.
Perseverance is Given to the End.
Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination.
Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable.
Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments.
God’s Ways Past Finding Out.
Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to God’s Eternal Foreknowledge.
Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ.
True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ.
Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated.
Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage.
Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used.
Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance.
The Answer.
The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will.
Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall.
The Incarnation of the Word.
The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was Left in His Free Choice.
The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation.
What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake Good, and the Inability to Sin, to Die, and to Forsake Good?
The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass.
There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam.
God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So.
To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering.
What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints.
The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined.
No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation.
Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us.
The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind.
Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another.
In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved.
Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have.
Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication.
Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved.
The Purpose of Rebuke.
Conclusion.

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