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Book II

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Book II.

In the Shape of a Letter Addressed to the Presbyter Peter.

He advises Peter not to incur the imputation of having approved of the books which had been addressed to him by Victor on the origin of the soul, by any use he might make of them, nor to take as Catholic doctrines that person’s rash utterances contrary to the Christian faith. Victor’s various errors, and those, too, of a very serious character, he points out and briefly confutes; and he concludes with advising Peter himself to try to persuade Victor to amend his errors.

To his Lordship, my dearly beloved brother and fellow-presbyter Peter, Augustin, bishop, sendeth greeting in the Lord.

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Depraved Eloquence an Injurious Accomplishment.

xvii.v.i

He Asks What the Great Knowledge is that Victor Imparts.

xvii.v.ii

The Difference Between the Senses of the Body and Soul.

xvii.v.iii

To Believe the Soul is a Part of God is Blasphemy.

xvii.v.iv

In What Sense Created Beings are Out of God.

xvii.v.v

Shall God’s Nature Be Mutable, Sinful, Impious, Even Eternally Damned.

xvii.v.vi

To Think the Soul Corporeal an Error.

xvii.v.vii

The Thirst of the Rich Man in Hell Does Not Prove the Soul to Be Corporeal.

xvii.v.viii

How Could the Incorporeal God Breathe Out of Himself a Corporeal Substance?

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Children May Be Found of Like or of Unlike Dispositions with Their Parents.

xvii.v.x

Victor Implies that the Soul Had a ‘State’ And ‘Merit’ Before Incarnation.

xvii.v.xi

How Did the Soul Deserve to Be Incarnated?

xvii.v.xii

Victor Teaches that God Thwarts His Own Predestination.

xvii.v.xiii

Victor Sends Those Infants Who Die Unbaptized to Paradise and the Heavenly Mansions, But Not to the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Victor ‘Decides’ That Oblations Should Be Offered Up for Those Who Die Unbaptized.

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Victor Promises to the Unbaptized Paradise After Their Death, and the Kingdom of Heaven After Their Resurrection, Although He Admits that This Opposes Christ’s Statement.

xvii.v.xvi

Disobedient Compassion and Compassionate Disobedience Reprobated. Martyrdom in Lieu of Baptism.

xvii.v.xvii

Victor’s Dilemma and Fall.

xvii.v.xviii

Victor Relies on Ambiguous Scriptures.

xvii.v.xix

Victor Quotes Scriptures for Their Silence, and Neglects the Biblical Usage.

xvii.v.xx

Victor’s Perplexity and Failure.

xvii.v.xxi

Peter’s Responsibility in the Case of Victor.

xvii.v.xxii

Who They are that are Not Injured by Reading Injurious Books.

xvii.v.xxiii