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A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace.

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Title Page.

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Extract from Augustin’s Retractations.

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Argument.

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Introductory.

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The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will.

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What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is.

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The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God.

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Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected.

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Objections to the Use of Rebuke.

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The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke.

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Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke.

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Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received the Grace of Obedience.

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All Perseverance is God’s Gift.

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They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned.

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They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost.

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Election is of Grace, Not of Merit.

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None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish.

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Perseverance is Given to the End.

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Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination.

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Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable.

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Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments.

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God’s Ways Past Finding Out.

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Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to God’s Eternal Foreknowledge.

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Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ.

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True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ.

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Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated.

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Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage.

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Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used.

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Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance.

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The Answer.

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The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will.

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Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall.

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The Incarnation of the Word.

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The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was Left in His Free Choice.

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The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation.

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What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake Good, and the Inability to Sin, to Die, and to Forsake Good?

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The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass.

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There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam.

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God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So.

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To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering.

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What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints.

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The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined.

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No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation.

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Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us.

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The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind.

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Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another.

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In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved.

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Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have.

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Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication.

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Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved.

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The Purpose of Rebuke.

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Conclusion.

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