On the Gift of Perseverance
1. Of the Nature of the Perseverance Here Discoursed of.2. Faith is the Beginning of a Christian Man. Martyrdom for Christ’s Sake is His Best Ending.3. God is Besought for It, Because It is His Gift.4. Three Leading Points of the Pelagian Doctrine.5. The Second Petition in the Lord’s Prayer.6. The Third Petition. How Heaven and Earth are Understood in the Lord’s Prayer.7. The Fourth Petition.8. The Fifth Petition. It is an Error of the Pelagians that the Righteous are Free from Sin.9. When Perseverance is Granted to a Person, He Cannot But Persevere.10. The Gift of Perseverance Can Be Obtained by Prayer.11. Effect of Prayer for Perseverance.12. Of His Own Will a Man Forsakes God, So that He is Deservedly Forsaken of Him.13. Temptation the Condition of Man.14. It is God’s Grace Both that Man Comes to Him, and that Man Does Not Depart from Him.15. Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer.16. Why is Not Grace Given According to Merit?17. The Difficulty of the Distinction Made in the Choice of One and the Rejection of Another.18. But Why Should One Be Punished More Than Another?19. Why Does God Mingle Those Who Will Persevere with Those Who Will Not?20. Ambrose on God’s Control Over Men’s Thoughts.21. Instances of the Unsearchable Judgments of God.22. It is an Absurdity to Say that the Dead Will Be Judged for Sins Which They Would Have Committed If They Had Lived.23. Why for the People of Tyre and Sidon, Who Would Have Believed, the Miracles Were Not Done Which Were Done in Other Places Which Did Not Believe.24. It May Be Objected that The People of Tyre and Sidon Might, If They Had Heard, Have Believed, and Have Subsequently Lapsed from Their Faith.25. God’s Ways, Both in Mercy and Judgment, Past Finding Out.26. The Manicheans Do Not Receive All the Books of the Old Testament, and of the New Only Those that They Choose.27. Reference to the 'Retractations.'28. God’s Goodness and Righteousness Shown in All.29. God’s True Grace Could Be Defended Even If There Were No Original Sin, as Pelagius Maintains.30. Augustin Claims the Right to Grow in Knowledge.31. Infants are Not Judged According to that Which They are Foreknown as Likely to Do If They Should Live.32. The Inscrutability of God’s Free Purposes.33. God Gives Both Initiatory and Persevering Grace According to His Own Will.34. The Doctrine of Predestination Not Opposed to the Advantage of Preaching.35. What Predestination is.36. The Preaching of the Gospel and the Preaching of Predestination the Two Parts of One Message.37. Ears to Hear are a Willingness to Obey.38. Against the Preaching of Predestination the Same Objections May Be Alleged as Against Predestination.39. Prayer and Exhortation.40. When the Truth Must Be Spoken, When Kept Back.41. Predestination Defined as Only God’s Disposing of Events in His Foreknowledge.42. The Adversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to Those Gifts of Grace Which They Themselves Acknowledge, and Their Exhortations are Not Hindered by This Predestination Nevertheless.43. Further Development of the Foregoing Argument.44. Exhortation to Wisdom, Though Wisdom is God’s Gift.45. Exhortation to Other Gifts of God in Like Manner.46. A Man Who Does Not Persevere Fails by His Own Fault.47. Predestination is Sometimes Signified Under the Name of Foreknowledge.48. Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose.49. Further References to Cyprian and Ambrose.50. Obedience Not Discouraged by Preaching God’s Gifts.51. Predestination Must Be Preached.52. Previous Writings Anticipatively Refuted the Pelagian Heresy.53. Augustin’s 'Confessions.'54. Beginning and End of Faith is of God.55. Testimony of His Previous Writings and Letters.56. God Gives Means as Well as End.57. How Predestination Must Be Preached So as Not to Give Offence.58. The Doctrine to Be Applied with Discrimination.59. Offence to Be Avoided.60. The Application to the Church in General.61. Use of the Third Person Rather Than the Second.62. Prayer to Be Inculcated, Nevertheless.63. The Testimony of the Whole Church in Her Prayers.64. In What Sense the Holy Spirit Solicits for Us, Crying, Abba, Father.65. The Church’s Prayers Imply the Church’s Faith.66. Recapitulation and Exhortation.67. The Most Eminent Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.Conclusion.