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Preliminary Notes on the Second Book.

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Introductory Statement.

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In This and the Four Next Chapters He Adduces the Garbled Extracts He Has to Consider.

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The Same Continued.

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The Same Continued.

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The Same Continued.

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The Same Continued.

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Augustin Adduces a Passage Selected from the Preface of Julianus. (See ‘The Unfinished Work,’ i. 73.)

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Augustin Refutes the Passage Adduced Above.

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The Catholics Maintain the Doctrine of Original Sin, and Thus are Far from Being Manicheans.

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In What Manner the Adversary’s Cavils Must Be Refuted.

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The Devil the Author, Not of Nature, But Only of Sin.

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Eve’s Name Means Life, and is a Great Sacrament of the Church.

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The Pelagian Argument to Show that the Devil Has No Rights in the Fruits of Marriage.

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Concupiscence Alone, in Marriage, is Not of God.

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Man, by Birth, is Placed Under the Dominion of the Devil Through Sin; We Were All One in Adam When He Sinned.

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It is Not of Us, But Our Sins, that the Devil is the Author.

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The Pelagians are Not Ashamed to Eulogize Concupiscence, Although They are Ashamed to Mention Its Name.

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The Same Continued.

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The Pelagians Misunderstand ‘Seed’ In Scripture.

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Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed.

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It is the Good God That Gives Fruitfulness, and the Devil That Corrupts the Fruit.

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Shall We Be Ashamed of What We Do, or of What God Does?

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The Pelagians Affirm that God in the Case of Abraham and Sarah Aroused Concupiscence as a Gift from Heaven.

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What Covenant of God the New-Born Babe Breaks. What Was the Value of Circumcision.

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Augustin Not the Deviser of Original Sin.

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The Child in No Sense Formed by Concupiscence.

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The Pelagians Argue that God Sometimes Closes the Womb in Anger, and Opens It When Appeased.

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Augustin’s Answer to This Argument. Its Dealing with Scripture.

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The Same Continued. Augustin Also Asserts that God Forms Man at Birth.

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The Case of Abimelech and His House Examined.

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Why God Proceeds to Create Human Beings, Who He Knows Will Be Born in Sin.

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God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates.

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Though God Makes Us, We Perish Unless He Re-makes Us in Christ.

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The Pelagians Argue that Cohabitation Rightly Used is a Good, and What is Born from It is Good.

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He Answers the Arguments of Julianus. What is the Natural Use of the Woman? What is the Unnatural Use?

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God Made Nature Good: the Saviour Restores It When Corrupted.

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If There is No Marriage Without Cohabitation, So There is No Cohabitation Without Shame.

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Jovinian Used Formerly to Call Catholics Manicheans; The Arians Also Used to Call Catholics Sabellians.

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Man Born of Whatever Parentage is Sinful and Capable of Redemption.

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Augustin Declines the Dilemma Offered Him.

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The Pelagians Argue that Original Sin Cannot Come Through Marriage If Marriage is Good.

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The Pelagians Try to Get Rid of Original Sin by Their Praise of God’s Works; Marriage, in Its Nature and by Its Institution, is Not the Cause of Sin.

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The Good Tree in the Gospel that Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Does Not Mean Marriage.

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The Pelagians Argue that If Sin Comes by Birth, All Married People Deserve Condemnation.

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Answer to This Argument: The Apostle Says We All Sinned in One.

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The Reign of Death, What It Is; The Figure of the Future Adam; How All Men are Justified Through Christ.

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The Scriptures Repeatedly Teach Us that All Sin in One.

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Original Sin Arose from Adam’s Depraved Will. Whence the Corrupt Will Sprang.

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In Infants Nature is of God, and the Corruption of Nature of the Devil.

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The Rise and Origin of Evil. The Exorcism and Exsufflation of Infants, a Primitive Christian Rite.

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To Call Those that Teach Original Sin Manicheans is to Accuse Ambrose, Cyprian, and the Whole Church.

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Sin Was the Origin of All Shameful Concupiscence.

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Concupiscence Need Not Have Been Necessary for Fruitfulness.

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How Marriage is Now Different Since the Existence of Sin.

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Lust is a Disease; The Word ‘Passion’ In the Ecclesiastical Sense.

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The Pelagians Allow that Christ Died Even for Infants; Julianus Slays Himself with His Own Sword.

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The Great Sin of the First Man.

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Adam’s Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even of Regenerate Parents; The Example of the Olive Tree and the Wild Olive.

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The Pelagians Can Hardly Venture to Place Concupiscence in Paradise Before the Commission of Sin.

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Let Not the Pelagians Indulge Themselves in a Cruel Defence of Infants.

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