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enchir19 CHAPTER XIX ALMSGIVING AND FORGIVENESS 70. We must beware, however, lest anyone suppose that unspeakable crimes such as they commit who "will not possess the Kingdom of God" can…
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enchir20 CHAPTER XX SPIRITUAL ALMSGIVING 75. Now, surely, those who live in gross wickedness and take no care to correct their lives and habits, who yet, amid their crimes and…
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enchir21 CHAPTER XXI PROBLEMS OF CASUISTRY 78. What sins are trivial and what are grave, however, is not for human but for divine judgment to determine. For we see that,…
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enchir22 CHAPTER XXII THE TWO CAUSES OF SIN 81. I shall now mention what I have often discussed before in other places in my short treatises.185 We sin from two…
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enchir23 CHAPTER XXIII THE REALITY OF THE RESURRECTION 84. Now, with respect to the resurrection of the body--and by this I do not mean the cases of resuscitation after which…
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enchir24 CHAPTER XXIV THE SOLUTION TO PRESENT SPIRITUAL ENIGMAS TO BE AWAITED IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME 94. And thus it will be that while the reprobated…
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enchir25 CHAPTER XXV PREDESTINATION AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD 98. Furthermore, who would be so impiously foolish as to say that God cannot turn the evil wills of men--as he…
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enchir26 CHAPTER XXVI THE TRIUMPH OF GOD'S SOVEREIGN GOOD WILL 100. These are "the great works of the Lord, well-considered in all his acts of will"217 --and so wisely well-considered…
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enchir27 CHAPTER XXVII LIMITS OF GOD'S PLAN FOR HUMAN SALVATION 103. Accordingly, when we hear and read in sacred Scripture that God "willeth that all men should be saved,"220 although…
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enchir28 CHAPTER XXVIII THE DESTINY OF MAN 104. Consequently, God would have willed to preserve even the first man in that state of salvation in which he was created and…