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Augustine of Hippo, On Rebuke and Grace
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On Rebuke and Grace, to the same Valentinus and the Monks with Him
Chapter 2.—The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will.
Chapter 3 [II.]—What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is.
Chapter 4—The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God.
Chapter 5 [III.]—Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected.
Chapter 6 [IV.]—Objections to the Use of Rebuke.
Chapter 7 [V.]—The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke.
Chapter 8.—Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke.
Chapter 10—All Perseverance is God’s Gift.
Chapter 13.—Election is of Grace, Not of Merit.
Chapter 14.—None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish.
Chapter 15.—Perseverance is Given to the End.
Chapter 17 [VIII.]—Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable.
Chapter 18.—Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments.
Chapter 19.—God’s Ways Past Finding Out.
Chapter 21.—Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ.
Chapter 22.—True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ.
Chapter 23.—Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated.
Chapter 24.—Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage.
Chapter 25.—Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used.
Chapter 26 [X.]—Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance.
Chapter 28.—The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will.
Chapter 29 [XI.]—Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall.
Chapter 30.—The Incarnation of the Word.
Chapter 32.—The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation.
Chapter 35.—There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam.
Chapter 36.—God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So.
Chapter 37.—To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering.
Chapter 38.—What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints.
Chapter 39 [XIII.]—The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined.
Chapter 40.—No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation.
Chapter 41.—Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us.
Chapter 42.—The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind.
Chapter 43 [XIV.]—Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another.
Chapter 44.—In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved.
Chapter 47.—Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, “Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved.”
Chapter 44.—In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved.
And what is written, that “He wills all men to be saved,”154 1 Tim. ii. 4. while yet all men are not saved, may be understood in many ways, some of which I have mentioned in other writings155 Enchirid, c. 103; City of God, xxii. 1, 2. Against Julian, iv. 8. of mine; but here I will say one thing: “He wills all men to be saved,” is so said that all the predestinated may be understood by it, because every kind of men is among them. Just as it was said to the Pharisees, “Ye tithe every herb;”156 Luke xi. 42. where the expression is only to be understood of every herb that they had, for they did not tithe every herb which was found throughout the whole earth. According to the same manner of speaking, it was said, “Even as I also please all men in all things.”157 1 Cor. x. 33. For did he who said this please also the multitude of his persecutors? But he pleased every kind of men that assembled in the Church of Christ, whether they were already established therein, or were to be introduced into it.
0943 44. Et quod scriptum est, quod vult omnes homines salvos fieri (I Tim. II, 4), nec tamen omnes salvi fiunt, multis quidem modis intelligi potest, ex quibus in aliis opusculis nostris aliquos commemoravimus (Enchirid. cap. 103; lib. 22 de Civit. Dei, capp. 1 et 2; supra, lib. 4 contra Julian., cap. 8, etc.): sed hic unum dicam. Ita dictum est, Omnes homines vult salvos fieri, ut intelligantur omnes praedestinati; quia omne genus hominum in eis est. Sicut dictum est Pharisaeis, Decimatis omne olus (Luc. XI, 42): ubi non est intelligendum nisi omne quod habebant; neque enim omne olus quod erat in toto terrarum orbe decimabant. Secundum istum locutionis modum dictum est, Sicut et ego omnibus per omnia placeo (I Cor. X, 33). Numquid enim qui hoc dixit, placebat etiam tam multis persecutoribus suis? Sed placebat omni generi hominum, quod Christi congregabat Ecclesia, sive jam intus positis, sive introducendis in eam.