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A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness.

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Title Page.

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Preface to the Treatise on Man’s Perfection in Righteousness.

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Argument.

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Introduction.

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The First Breviate of Cœlestius.

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The Second Breviate.

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The Third Breviate.

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The Fourth Breviate.

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The Fifth Breviate.

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The Sixth Breviate.

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The Seventh Breviate.

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The Eighth Breviate.

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The Ninth Breviate.

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The Tenth Breviate.

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The Eleventh Breviate.

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The Twelfth Breviate.

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The Thirteenth Breviate.

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The Fourteenth Breviate.

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The Fifteenth Breviate.

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The Sixteenth Breviate.

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It is One Thing to Depart from the Body, Another Thing to Be Liberated from the Body of This Death.

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The Righteousness of This Life Comprehended in Three Parts,—Fasting, Almsgiving, and Prayer.

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The Commandment of Love Shall Be Perfectly Fulfilled in the Life to Come.

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Who May Be Said to Walk Without Spot; Damnable and Venial Sins.

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To Whom God’s Commandments are Grievous; And to Whom, Not. Why Scripture Says that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous; A Commandment is a Proof of the Freedom Of Man’s Will; Prayer is a Proof of Grace.

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Passages to Show that God’s Commandments are Not Grievous.

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Passages of Scripture Which, When Objected Against Him by the Catholics, Cœlestius Endeavours to Elude by Other Passages: the First Passage.

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To Be Without Sin, and to Be Without Blame—How Differing.

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Section 25

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Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer.

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Who May Be Said to Keep the Ways of the Lord; What It is to Decline and Depart from the Ways of the Lord.

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When Our Heart May Be Said Not to Reproach Us; When Good is to Be Perfected.

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The Second Passage. Who May Be Said to Abstain from Every Evil Thing.

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'Every Man is a Liar,' Owing to Himself Alone; But 'Every Man is True,' By Help Only of the Grace of God.

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The Third Passage. It is One Thing to Depart, and Another Thing to Have Departed, from All Sin. ‘There is None that Doeth Good,’—Of Whom This is to Be Understood.

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The Fourth Passage. In What Sense God Only is Good. With God to Be Good and to Be Himself are the Same Thing.

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The Fifth Passage.

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The Opposing Passages.

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The Church Will Be Without Spot and Wrinkle After the Resurrection.

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The Difference Between the Upright in Heart and the Clean in Heart.

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The Sixth Passage.

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The Seventh Passage. Who May Be Called Immaculate. How It is that in God’s Sight No Man is Justified.

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The Eighth Passage. In What Sense He is Said Not to Sin Who is Born of God. In What Way He Who Sins Shall Not See Nor Know God.

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The Ninth Passage.

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Specimens of Pelagian Exegesis.

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God’s Promises Conditional. Saints of the Old Testament Were Saved by the Grace of Christ.

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No Man is Assisted Unless He Does Himself Also Work. Our Course is a Constant Progress.

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Conclusion of the Work. In the Regenerate It is Not Concupiscence, But Consent, Which is Sin.

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