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On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Section 1

Extract from Augustin’s Retractations

Extract from Augustin’s “Retractations,”

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Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
Book I
Introductory, in the Shape of an Inscription to His Friend Marcellinus
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It is One Thing to Be Mortal, Another Thing to Be Subject to Death
Even Bodily Death is from Sin
The Words, Mortale (Capable of Dying), Mortuum (Dead), and Moriturus (Destined to Die)
How It is that the Body Dead Because of Sin
The Life of the Body the Object of Hope, the Life of the Spirit Being a Prelude to It
Bodily Death from Adam’s Sin
Sin Passes on to All Men by Natural Descent, and Not Merely by Imitation
The Analogy of Grace
Distinction Between Actual and Original Sin
The Law Could Not Take Away Sin
Meaning of the Apostle’s Phrase 'The Reign of Death.'
Superabundance of Grace
The One Sin Common to All Men
How Death is by One and Life by One
Whom Sinners Imitate
Only Christ Justifies
Sin is from Natural Descent, as Righteousness is from Regeneration; How ‘All’ Are Sinners Through Adam, and ‘All’ Are Just Through Christ

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