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xxi.iii.i
Introductionxxi.iii.ii
Of the Nature of the Perseverance Here Discoursed of.xxi.iii.iii
Faith is the Beginning of a Christian Man. Martyrdom for Christ’s Sake is His Best Ending.xxi.iii.iv
God is Besought for It, Because It is His Gift.xxi.iii.v
Three Leading Points of the Pelagian Doctrine.xxi.iii.vi
The Second Petition in the Lord’s Prayer.xxi.iii.vii
The Third Petition. How Heaven and Earth are Understood in the Lord’s Prayer.xxi.iii.viii
The Fourth Petition.xxi.iii.ix
The Fifth Petition. It is an Error of the Pelagians that the Righteous are Free from Sin.xxi.iii.x
When Perseverance is Granted to a Person, He Cannot But Persevere.xxi.iii.xi
The Gift of Perseverance Can Be Obtained by Prayer.xxi.iii.xii
Effect of Prayer for Perseverance.xxi.iii.xiii
Of His Own Will a Man Forsakes God, So that He is Deservedly Forsaken of Him.xxi.iii.xiv
Temptation the Condition of Man.xxi.iii.xv
It is God’s Grace Both that Man Comes to Him, and that Man Does Not Depart from Him.xxi.iii.xvi
Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer.xxi.iii.xvii
Why is Not Grace Given According to Merit?xxi.iii.xviii
The Difficulty of the Distinction Made in the Choice of One and the Rejection of Another.xxi.iii.xix
But Why Should One Be Punished More Than Another?xxi.iii.xx
Why Does God Mingle Those Who Will Persevere with Those Who Will Not?xxi.iii.xxi
Ambrose on God’s Control Over Men’s Thoughts.xxi.iii.xxii
Instances of the Unsearchable Judgments of God.xxi.iii.xxiii
It is an Absurdity to Say that the Dead Will Be Judged for Sins Which They Would Have Committed If They Had Lived.xxi.iii.xxiv
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.xxi.iii.xxv
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.xxi.iii.xxvi
God’s Ways, Both in Mercy and Judgment, Past Finding Out.xxi.iii.xxvii
The Manicheans Do Not Receive All the Books of the Old Testament, and of the New Only Those that They Choose.xxi.iii.xxviii
Reference to the 'Retractations.'xxi.iii.xxix
God’s Goodness and Righteousness Shown in All.xxi.iii.xxx
God’s True Grace Could Be Defended Even If There Were No Original Sin, as Pelagius Maintains.xxi.iii.xxxi
Augustin Claims the Right to Grow in Knowledge.xxi.iii.xxxii
Infants are Not Judged According to that Which They are Foreknown as Likely to Do If They Should Live.xxi.iii.xxxiii
The Inscrutability of God’s Free Purposes.xxi.iii.xxxiv
God Gives Both Initiatory and Persevering Grace According to His Own Will.xxi.iii.xxxv
The Doctrine of Predestination Not Opposed to the Advantage of Preaching.xxi.iii.xxxvi
What Predestination is.xxi.iii.xxxvii
The Preaching of the Gospel and the Preaching of Predestination the Two Parts of One Message.xxi.iii.xxxviii
Ears to Hear are a Willingness to Obey.xxi.iii.xxxix
Against the Preaching of Predestination the Same Objections May Be Alleged as Against Predestination.xxi.iii.xl
Prayer and Exhortation.xxi.iii.xli
When the Truth Must Be Spoken, When Kept Back.xxi.iii.xlii
Predestination Defined as Only God’s Disposing of Events in His Foreknowledge.xxi.iii.xliii
The Adversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to Those Gifts of Grace Which They Themselves Acknowledge, and Their Exhortations are Not Hindered by This Predestination Nevertheless.xxi.iii.xliv
Further Development of the Foregoing Argument.xxi.iii.xlv
Exhortation to Wisdom, Though Wisdom is God’s Gift.xxi.iii.xlvi
Exhortation to Other Gifts of God in Like Manner.xxi.iii.xlvii
A Man Who Does Not Persevere Fails by His Own Fault.xxi.iii.xlviii
Predestination is Sometimes Signified Under the Name of Foreknowledge.xxi.iii.xlix
Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose.xxi.iii.l
Further References to Cyprian and Ambrose.xxi.iii.li
Obedience Not Discouraged by Preaching God’s Gifts.xxi.iii.lii
Predestination Must Be Preached.xxi.iii.liii
Previous Writings Anticipatively Refuted the Pelagian Heresy.xxi.iii.liv
Augustin’s 'Confessions.'xxi.iii.lv
Beginning and End of Faith is of God.xxi.iii.lvi
Testimony of His Previous Writings and Letters.xxi.iii.lvii
God Gives Means as Well as End.xxi.iii.lviii
How Predestination Must Be Preached So as Not to Give Offence.xxi.iii.lix
The Doctrine to Be Applied with Discrimination.xxi.iii.lx
Offence to Be Avoided.xxi.iii.lxi
The Application to the Church in General.xxi.iii.lxii
Use of the Third Person Rather Than the Second.xxi.iii.lxiii
Prayer to Be Inculcated, Nevertheless.xxi.iii.lxiv
The Testimony of the Whole Church in Her Prayers.xxi.iii.lxv
In What Sense the Holy Spirit Solicits for Us, Crying, Abba, Father.xxi.iii.lxvi
The Church’s Prayers Imply the Church’s Faith.xxi.iii.lxvii
Recapitulation and Exhortation.xxi.iii.lxviii
The Most Eminent Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.xxi.iii.lxix
Conclusion.xxi.iii.lxx