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I2 8 Augustinian Doctrine CHAP, v.
his own blood These it is who are signified to
Timothy, where, after saying that Hymenseus and Philetus
were subverting the faith of some, the Apostle adds,
"
Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having
the Lord knoweth them that are His."
this seal,
Their faith, which worketh by love, either never faileth,
all inter
or, if it does, is repaired before life is ended ; and,
vening iniquity blotted out, perseverance
unto the end is
imputed to them. But those who are not about to perse
vere are not, even at the time when they live piously, to
l)e reckoned among that number; because they are not
separated from that mass of perdition by the Divine fore
knowledge and predestination ; and therefore are not called
according to His purpose, and therefore not chosen. De
Correptione et Gratia, c. vii.
Such is the predestination of the saints, the
Again :
foreknowledge that is, and preparation of the Divine acts
of grace, by which every one is infallibly saved who is saved.
But for the rest, where are they but in that mass of perdi
tion where the Divine justice most justly leaves them?
Where the Tyrians are, and the Sidonians are, who would
have been able to believe if they had seen the miracles of
Christ ; but who, inasmuch as faith was not destined for
them, were denied the means of faith as well. Whence it
is evident that some have a Divine gift of intelligence im
them to
planted in their natures, designed for exciting
faith, provided they see or hear preaching or miracles
which appeal to that gift ; and yet being, according to some
deeper judgment of Grod, not included within the predesti
nation of grace, and separated from the mass of perdition
by it, have not those Divine words and those Divine acts
brought before them, and so are not enabled to believe. 1
\ Ex quo apparet habere quosdam ipsa eis adhibentur vel dicta divina
in ipso ingenio divinum naturaliter vel facta, per quse possent credere,
munus intelligentise, quo moveantur si audirent utique talia vel viderent.
ad fidem, si congrua suis mentibus In eadem perditionis massa relicti
vel audiant verba, vel signa conspi- sunt etiam Judsei qui non potuerunt
ciant : et tamen si Dei altiore ju- credere factis in conspectu suo tarn
dicio, a perditionis massa non sunt magnis clarisque virtutibus.
gratise prsedestinatione discreti, nee