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On Rebuke and Grace

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Post-Nicene

De Correptione et Gratia, addressed to the monks of Hadrumetum, arguing that rebuke of sinners is compatible with the doctrine of grace and that perseverance itself is a gift of God.

Table of Contents

1Extract from Augustin’s Retractations2Argument3Introductory4The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will5What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is6The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God7Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected8Objections to the Use of Rebuke9The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke10Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke11Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received the Grace of Obedience12All Perseverance is God’s Gift13They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned14They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost15Election is of Grace, Not of Merit16None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish17Perseverance is Given to the End18Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination19Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable20Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments21God’s Ways Past Finding Out22Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to God’s Eternal Foreknowledge23Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ24True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ25Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated26Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage27Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used28Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance29The Answer30The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will31Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall32The Incarnation of the Word33The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was Left in His Free Choice34The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation35What 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?36The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass37There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam38God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So39To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering40What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints41The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined42No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation43Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us44The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind45Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another46In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved47Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have48Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication49Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved50The Purpose of Rebuke51Conclusion