On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
1. Introductory, in the Shape of an Inscription to His Friend Marcellinus.2. If Adam Had Not Sinned, He Would Never Have Died.3. It is One Thing to Be Mortal, Another Thing to Be Subject to Death.4. Even Bodily Death is from Sin.5. The Words, Mortale (Capable of Dying), Mortuum (Dead), and Moriturus (Destined to Die).6. How It is that the Body Dead Because of Sin.7. The Life of the Body the Object of Hope, the Life of the Spirit Being a Prelude to It.8. Bodily Death from Adam’s Sin.9. Sin Passes on to All Men by Natural Descent, and Not Merely by Imitation.10. The Analogy of Grace.11. Distinction Between Actual and Original Sin.12. The Law Could Not Take Away Sin.13. Meaning of the Apostle’s Phrase 'The Reign of Death.'14. Superabundance of Grace.15. The One Sin Common to All Men.16. How Death is by One and Life by One.17. Whom Sinners Imitate.18. Only Christ Justifies.19. Sin is from Natural Descent, as Righteousness is from Regeneration; How ‘All’ Are Sinners Through Adam, and ‘All’ Are Just Through Christ.20. Original Sin Alone is Contracted by Natural Birth.21. Unbaptized Infants Damned, But Most Lightly; The Penalty of Adam’s Sin, the Grace of His Body Lost.22. To Infants Personal Sin is Not to Be Attributed.23. He Refutes Those Who Allege that Infants are Baptized Not for the Remission of Sins, But for the Obtaining of the Kingdom of Heaven.24. Infants Saved as Sinners.25. Infants are Described as Believers and as Penitents. Sins Alone Separate Between God and Men.26. No One, Except He Be Baptized, Rightly Comes to the Table of the Lord.27. Infants Must Feed on Christ.28. Baptized Infants, of the Faithful; Unbaptized, of the Lost.29. It is an Inscrutable Mystery Why Some are Saved, and Others Not.30. Why One is Baptized and Another Not, Not Otherwise Inscrutable.31. He Refutes Those Who Suppose that Souls, on Account of Sins Committed in Another State, are Thrust into Bodies Suited to Their Merits, in Which They are More or Less Tormented.32. The Case of Certain Idiots and Simpletons.33. Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer Even of Infants.34. Baptism is Called Salvation, and the Eucharist, Life, by the Christians of Carthage.35. Unless Infants are Baptized, They Remain in Darkness.36. Infants Not Enlightened as Soon as They are Born.37. How God Enlightens Every Person.38. What ‘Lighteth’ Means.39. The Conclusion Drawn, that All are Involved in Original Sin.40. A Collection of Scripture Testimonies. From the Gospels.41. From the First Epistle of Peter.42. From the First Epistle of John.43. From the Epistle to the Romans.44. From the Epistles to the Corinthians.45. From the Epistle to the Galatians.46. From the Epistle to the Ephesians.47. From the Epistle to the Colossians.48. From the Epistles to Timothy.49. From the Epistle to Titus.50. From the Epistle to the Hebrews.51. From the Apocalypse.52. From the Acts of the Apostles.53. The Utility of the Books of the Old Testament.54. By the Sacrifices of the Old Testament, Men Were Convinced of Sins and Led to the Saviour.55. He Concludes that All Men Need the Death of Christ, that They May Be Saved. Unbaptized Infants Will Be Involved in the Condemnation of the Devil. How All Men Through Adam are Unto Condemnation; And Through Christ Unto Justification. No One is Reconciled with God, Except Through Christ.56. No One is Reconciled to God Except Through Christ.57. The Good of Marriage; Four Different Cases of the Good and the Evil Use of Matrimony.58. In What Respect the Pelagians Regarded Baptism as Necessary for Infants.59. The Context of Their Chief Text.60. Christ, the Head and the Body; Owing to the Union of the Natures in the Person of Christ, He Both Remained in Heaven, and Walked About on Earth; How the One Christ Could Ascend to Heaven; The Head, and the Body, the One Christ.61. The Serpent Lifted Up in the Wilderness Prefigured Christ Suspended on the Cross; Even Infants Themselves Poisoned by the Serpent’s Bite.62. No One Can Be Reconciled to God, Except by Christ.63. The Form, or Rite, of Baptism. Exorcism.64. A Twofold Mistake Respecting Infants.65. In Infants There is No Sin of Their Own Commission.66. Infants’ Faults Spring from Their Sheer Ignorance.67. On the Ignorance of Infants, and Whence It Arises.68. If Adam Was Not Created of Such a Character as that in Which We are Born, How is It that Christ, Although Free from Sin, Was Born an Infant and in Weakness?69. The Ignorance and the Infirmity of an Infant.70. How Far Sin is Done Away in Infants by Baptism, Also in Adults, and What Advantage Results Therefrom.71. What Has Thus Far Been Dwelt On; And What is to Be Treated in This Book.72. Some Persons Attribute Too Much to the Freedom of Man’s Will; Ignorance and Infirmity.73. In What Way God Commands Nothing Impossible. Works of Mercy, Means of Wiping Out Sins.74. Concupiscence, How Far in Us; The Baptized are Not Injured by Concupiscence, But Only by Consent Therewith.75. The Will of Man Requires the Help of God.76. Wherein the Pharisee Sinned When He Thanked God; To God’s Grace Must Be Added the Exertion of Our Own Will.77. Four Questions on the Perfection of Righteousness: (1.) Whether a Man Can Be Without Sin in This Life.78. (2) Whether There is in This World a Man Without Sin.79. The Beginning of Renewal; Resurrection Called Regeneration; They are the Sons of God Who Lead Lives Suitable to Newness of Life.80. Perfection, When to Be Realized.81. An Objection of the Pelagians: Why Does Not a Righteous Man Beget a Righteous Man?82. He Reconciles Some Passages of Scripture.83. A Subterfuge of the Pelagians.84. Job Was Not Without Sin.85. Carnal Generation Condemned on Account of Original Sin.86. Job Foresaw that Christ Would Come to Suffer; The Way of Humility in Those that are Perfect.87. No One Righteous in All Things.88. Perfect Human Righteousness is Imperfect.89. Zacharias and Elisabeth, Sinners.90. Paul Worthy to Be the Prince of the Apostles, and Yet a Sinner.91. All Righteous Men Sinners.92. An Objection of the Pelagians; Perfection is Relative; He is Rightly Said to Be Perfect in Righteousness Who Has Made Much Progress Therein.93. Why God Prescribes What He Knows Cannot Be Observed.94. An Objection of the Pelagians. The Apostle Paul Was Not Free From Sin So Long as He Lived.95. God Punishes Both in Wrath and in Mercy.96. (3)Why No One in This Life is Without Sin.97. The Divine Remedy for Pride.98. A Good Will Comes from God.99. A Subterfuge of the Pelagians.100. All Will is Either Good, and Then It Loves Righteousness, or Evil, When It Does Not Love Righteousness.101. Grace is Given to Some Men in Mercy; Is Withheld from Others in Justice and Truth.102. God’s Sovereignity in His Grace.103. Through Grace We Have Both the Knowledge of Good, and the Delight Which It Affords.104. (4) That No Man, with the Exception of Christ, Has Ever Lived, or Can Live Without Sin.105. Adam and Eve; Obedience Most Strongly Enjoined by God on Man.106. Man’s State Before the Fall.107. The Corruption of Nature is by Sin, Its Renovation is by Christ.108. What Benefit Has Been Conferred on Us by the Incarnation of the Word; Christ’s Birth in the Flesh, Wherein It is Like and Wherein Unlike Our Own Birth.109. An Objection of Pelagians.110. An Argument Anticipated.111. Children of Believers are Called ‘Clean’ By the Apostle.112. Sanctification Manifold; Sacrament of Catechumens.113. Why the Children of the Baptized Should Be Baptized.114. An Objection of the Pelagians.115. The Law of Sin is Called Sin; How Concupiscence Still Remains After Its Evil Has Been Removed in the Baptized.116. Guilt May Be Taken Away But Concupiscence Remain.117. All the Predestinated are Saved Through the One Mediator Christ, and by One and the Same Faith.118. Christ the Saviour Even of Infants; Christ, When an Infant, Was Free from Ignorance and Mental Weakness.119. An Objection of the Pelagians.120. Why It is that Death Itself is Not Abolished, Along with Sin, by Baptism.121. Why the Devil is Said to Hold the Power and Dominion of Death.122. Why Christ, After His Resurrection, Withdrew His Presence from the World.123. An Objection of the Pelagians.124. Why Punishment is Still Inflicted, After Sin Has Been Forgiven.125. To Recover the Righteousness Which Had Been Lost by Sin, Man Has to Struggle, with Abundant Labour and Sorrow.126. The Case of David, in Illustration.127. Turn to Neither Hand.128. 'Likeness of Sinful Flesh' Implies the Reality.129. Whether the Soul is Propagated; On Obscure Points, Concerning Which the Scriptures Give Us No Assistance, We Must Be on Our Guard Against Forming Hasty Judgments and Opinions; The Scriptures are Clear Enough on Those Subjects Which are Necessary to Salvation.130. Pelagius Esteemed a Holy Man; His Expositions on Saint Paul.131. Pelagius’ Objection; Infants Reckoned Among the Number of Believers and the Faithful.132. Pelagius Makes God Unjust.Chapter 4134. Pelagius Praised by Some; Arguments Against Original Sin Proposed by Pelagius in His Commentary.135. Why Pelagius Does Not Speak in His Own Person.136. Proof of Original Sin in Infants.137. Jesus is the Saviour Even of Infants.138. The Ambiguity of 'Adam is the Figure of Him to Come.'139. He Shows that Cyprian Had Not Doubted the Original Sin of Infants.140. The Ancients Assumed Original Sin.141. The Universal Consensus Respecting Original Sin.142. The Error of Jovinianus Did Not Extend So Far.143. The Opinions of All Controversialists Whatever are Not, However, Canonical Authority; Original Sin, How Another’s; We Were All One Man in Adam.144. We All Sinned Adam’s Sin.145. Origin of Errors; A Simile Sought from the Foreskin of the Circumcised, and from the Chaff of Wheat.146. Christians Do Not Always Beget Christian, Nor the Pure, Pure Children.147. Is the Soul Derived by Natural Propagation?148. Sin and Death in Adam, Righteousness and Life in Christ.149. The Sting of Death, What?150. The Precept About Touching the Menstruous Woman Not to Be Figuratively Understood; The Necessity of the Sacraments.151. We Ought to Be Anxious to Secure the Baptism of Infants.Epilogue.
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