A SELECT LIBRARY

OF THE

NICENE AND

POST-NICENE FATHERS

OF

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

EDITED BY

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK,

IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.

VOLUME V

ST. AUGUSTINE:

ANTI-PELAGIAN WRITINGS

NEW YORK:

THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY

1887

Copyright, 1887, by

THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY

SAINT AUGUSTINE’S ANTI-PELAGIAN WORKS

TRANSLATED BY

PETER HOLMES, D.D., F.R.A.S.,

DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES, AND CURATE OF PENNYCROSS, PLYMOUTH;

AND

REV. ROBERT ERNEST WALLIS, Ph.D.,

INCUMBENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, COXLEY, SOMERSET.

THE TRANSLATION REVISED, AND AN INTRODUCTION PREFIXED, BY

BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD, D.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT PRINCETON, N.J.

VOLUME V

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON AUGUSTIN AND THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY

DEDICATION OF VOLUME I. OF THE EDINBURGH EDITION

DEDICATION OF VOLUME II. OF THE EDINBURGH EDITION

PREFACE TO VOLUME I. OF THE EDINBURGH EDITION

PREFACE TO VOLUME II. OF THE EDINBURGH EDITION

St. Aurelius Augustin

ON THE MERITS AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS, AND ON THE BAPTISM OF INFANTS

Book I

Book II

Book III

ON THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER

NOTE ON THE FOLLOWING WORK

ON NATURE AND GRACE, AGAINST PELAGIUS

PREFACE TO THE TREATISE ON MAN’S PERFECTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

CONCERNING MAN’S PERFECTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

PREFACE TO THE BOOK ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF PELAGIUS

ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF PELAGIUS,

A TREATISE ON THE GRACE OF CHRIST, AND ON ORIGINAL SIN

Book I

Book II

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER ON THE FOLLOWING TREATISE

A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE COUNT VALERIUS

ON MARRIAGE AND CONCUPISCENCE

Book I

Book II

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER OF THIS TREATISE

ON THE SOUL AND ITS ORIGIN

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

A TREATISE AGAINST TWO LETTERS OF THE PELAGIANS

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

A TREATISE ON GRACE AND FREE WILL

TREATISE ON REBUKE AND GRACE

A TREATISE ON THE PREDESTINATION OF THE SAINTS,

THE FIRST BOOK

A TREATISE ON THE GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE, BEING THE SECOND BOOK

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

This volume contains all the Anti-Pelagian writings of Augustin, collected by the Benedictine editors in their tenth volume, with the exception only of the two long works Against Julian, and The Unfinished Work, which have been necessarily excluded on account of their bulk. The translation here printed is that of the English version of Augustin’s works, published by Messrs. T. and T. Clark at Edinburgh. This translation has been carefully compared with the Latin throughout, and corrected on every page into more accurate conformity to its sense. But this has not so altered its character that it ceases to be the Edinburgh translation,—bettered somewhat, but still essentially the same. The excellent translation of the three treatises, On the Spirit and the Letter, On Nature and Grace, and On the Proceedings of Pelagius, published ...

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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume V: Saint Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings.

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Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series V

Augustine of Hippo

On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants

On the Spirit and the Letter

On Nature and Grace, against Pelagius

Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness

On the Proceedings of Pelagius

A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin

A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius

On Marriage and Concupiscence

On the Soul and Its Origin

A Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will

Treatise on Rebuke and Grace

A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints

A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance

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