On the Predestination of the Saints
Introduction.2. To What Extent the Massilians Withdraw from the Pelagians.3. Even the Beginning of Faith is of God’s Gift.4. Continuation of the Preceding.5. To Believe is to Think with Assent.6. Presumption and Arrogance to Be Avoided.7. Augustin Confesses that He Had Formerly Been in Error Concerning the Grace of God.8. What Augustin Wrote to Simplicianus, the Successor of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.9. The Purpose of the Apostle in These Words.10. It is God’s Grace Which Specially Distinguishes One Man from Another.11. That Some Men are Elected is of God’s Mercy.12. Why the Apostle Said that We are Justified by Faith and Not by Works.13. The Effect of Divine Grace.14. Why the Father Does Not Teach All that They May Come to Christ.15. It is Believers that are Taught of God.16. Why the Gift of Faith is Not Given to All.17. His Argument in His Letter Against Porphyry, as to Why the Gospel Came So Late into the World.18. The Preceding Argument Applied to the Present Time.19. In What Respects Predestination and Grace Differ.20. Did God Promise the Good Works of the Nations and Not Their Faith, to Abraham?21. It is to Be Wondered at that Men Should Rather Trust to Their Own Weakness Than to God’s Strength.22. God’s Promise is Sure.23. Remarkable Illustrations of Grace and Predestination in Infants, and in Christ.24. That No One is Judged According to What He Would Have Done If He Had Lived Longer.25. Possibly the Baptized Infants Would Have Repented If They Had Lived, and the Unbaptized Not.26. Reference to Cyprian’s Treatise 'On the Mortality.'27. The Book of Wisdom Obtains in the Church the Authority of Canonical Scripture.28. Cyprian’s Treatise 'On the Mortality.'29. God’s Dealing Does Not Depend Upon Any Contingent Merits of Men.30. The Most Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.31. Christ Predestinated to Be the Son of God.32. The Twofold Calling.33. It is in the Power of Evil Men to Sin; But to Do This or That by Means of that Wickedness is in God’s Power Alone.34. The Special Calling of the Elect is Not Because They Have Believed, But in Order that They May Believe.35. Election is for the Purpose of Holiness.36. God Chose the Righteous; Not Those Whom He Foresaw as Being of Themselves, But Those Whom He Predestinated for the Purpose of Making So.37. We Were Elected and Predestinated, Not Because We Were Going to Be Holy, But in Order that We Might Be So.38. What is the View of the Pelagians, and What of the Semi-Pelagians, Concerning Predestination.39. The Beginning of Faith is God’s Gift.40. Apostolic Testimony to the Beginning of Faith Being God’s Gift.41. Further Apostolic Testimonies.42. Old Testament Testimonies.Conclusion.