Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

CHAP. v. of Predestination. 127
Whoever, therefore, are separated by Divine grace
from that original damnation, we doubt not but that there
is procured for them the hearing of the Gospel, that when
they hear they believe, and that in that faith which worketh
by love they continue unto the end ; that even if they go
astray they are corrected, and, being corrected, grow better ;
or that if they are not corrected by man, they still return
into the path they left, some being taken away from the
dangers of this life by a speedy death. All these things
in them He worketh whose handiwork they are, and who
made them vessels of mercy ; He who chose them in His
Son before the foundation of the world according to the
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election of grace and if of ;
grace, then no more of works,
otherwise grace is no more Of grace." such the Apostle
" We know that all things work together for good to
saith,
them that love God, who are called according to His pur
pose." Of them none perish because all are elect; and they
are elect because they are called according to the purpose;
and that purpose not their own, but God s of which He
;
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elsewhere saith, That the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works but of Him that calleth.
If any of these perish, God is deceived, but none
doth perish, for God is not deceived. If any of these
perish, God is overcome by man s corruption ; but none
doth perish, for God is conquered by nothing. They are
chosen to reign with Christ, not as Judas was chosen, of
" whom our Lord said, Have I not chosen you twelve, and
one of you is a devil," but chosen in mercy as He was in
judgment, chosen to obtain the kingdom as He was to spill
catio runs thus : Is it that they are modo vocati accommodare fidei volun-
called and that the call is not effec- tatem 1 He decides in favour of this
tual, because they do not will to interpretation, on the ground that it
obey it ? This does not agree with agrees with the text, Not of him
the text, Not of him that willeth, that willeth, &c. ; while the contrary
&c. ; for the contrary, not of God cannot be said of it, because the
that giveth mercy, but of him that effectual call thus defined depends
willeth, would then be true as well. not on man s will but on God s,
Is it, then, because God calls some who would have given it to others
in a way which He knows will be besides those to whom He has given
effectual, and gives this call to some it. if He had pleased. Quia si veUet
and not to others. So that of the etiam ipsorum misereri, posset ita
latter it might be said, possent alio vocare, quomodo eis aptum, esset.