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On the Proceedings of Pelagius

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Post-Nicene

De Gestis Pelagii, Augustine's careful review (c. 417) of the acts of the synod of Diospolis (Lydda) of 415, showing that Pelagius was acquitted there only by disavowing the doctrines actually at issue.

Table of Contents

1Extract from Augustin’s Retractations2Argument3The First Item in the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Answer4Discussion of Pelagius’ First Answer5The Same Continued6The Second Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer7Pelagius’ Answer Examined8The Same Continued9The Same Continued10The Third Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer11Pelagius’ Answer Examined. On Origen’s Error Concerning the Non-Eternity of the Punishment of the Devil and the Damned12The Same Continued13The Fourth Item in the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer14The Fifth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Answer15Examination 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 Testament16The Same Continued17The Sixth Item of the Accusation, and Pelagius’ Reply18Examination of the Sixth Charge and Answers19The Same Continued20The Same Continued21The Same Continued. Pelagius Acknowledges the Doctrine of Grace in Deceptive Terms22The Same Continued23Chapter 21 [IX.]—The Same Continued.24The Same Continued. The Synod Supposed that the Grace Acknowledged by Pelagius Was that Which Was So Thoroughly Known to the Church25The Seventh Item of the Accusation: the Breviates of Cœlestius Objected to Pelagius26Pelagius’ Answer to the Charges Brought Together Under the Seventh Item27The Pelagians Falsely Pretended that the Eastern Churches Were on Their Side28The Accusations in the Seventh Item, Which Pelagius Confessed29The Eighth Item in the Accusation30Pelagius’ Reply to the Eighth Item of Accusation31The Ninth Item of the Accusation; And Pelagius’ Reply32The Tenth Item in the Accusation. The More Prominent Points of Cœlestius’ Work Continued33Remarks on the Tenth Item34The Eleventh Item of the Accusation35Discussion of the Eleventh Item Continued36The 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 Grace37The Same Continued38The Same Continued. The Monk Pelagius. Grace is Conferred on the Unworthy39The Same Continued. John, Bishop of Jerusalem, and His Examination40The Same Continued41The Same Continued. Heros and Lazarus; Orosius42The Same Continued43Augustin Indulgently Shows that the Judges Acted Incautiously in Their Official Conduct of the Case of Pelagius44The Twelfth Item in the Accusation. Other Heads of Cœlestius’ Doctrine Abjured by Pelagius45The Answer of the Monk Pelagius and His Profession of Faith46The Acquittal of Pelagius47Pelagius’ Acquittal Becomes Suspected48How Pelagius Became Known to Augustin; Cœlestius Condemned at Carthage49Pelagius’ Book, Which Was Sent by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin, Was Answered by the Latter in His Work 'On Nature and Grace.'50A Letter Written by Timasius and Jacobus to Augustin on Receiving His Treatise 'On Nature and Grace.'51Pelagius’ Behaviour Contrasted with that of the Writers of the Letter52Pelagius Has No Good Reason to Be Annoyed If His Name Be at Last Used in the Controversy, and He Be Expressly Refuted53The Nature of Augustin’s Letter to Pelagius54The Text of the Letter55Pelagius’ Use of Recommendations56On the Letter of Pelagius, in Which He Boasts that His Errors Had Been Approved by Fourteen Bishops57Pelagius’ Letter Discussed58Is Pelagius Sincere?59Fraudulent Practices Pursued by Pelagius in His Report of the Proceedings in Palestine, in the Paper Wherein He Defended Himself to Augustin60The Same Continued61Although Pelagius Was Acquitted, His Heresy Was Condemned62The Synod’s Condemnation of His Doctrines63History of the Pelagian Heresy. The Pelagian Heresy Was Raised by Sundry Persons Who Affected the Monastic State64The 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 Them65The Same Continued. The Dogmas of Cœlestius Laid to the Charge of Pelagius, as His Master, and Condemned66How the Bishops Cleared Pelagius of Those Charges67Recapitulation of What Pelagius Condemned68The Harsh Measures of the Pelagians Against the Holy Monks and Nuns Who Belonged to Jerome’s Charge