Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

CHAP. v. of Predestination. 129
The Jews who would not believe our Lord s miracles were
left in the mass of perdition, and why ? The Evangelist
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tells us, That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be
fulfilled which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report,
and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said
again, He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their
hearts, that they should not see with their eyes and under
stand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should
heal them." But the hearts of the Tyrians and Sidonians
would have believed if
were not thus hardened, for they
they had seen such miracles. That they were able to
believe, however, was of no service to them, when they
were not predestinated by Him whose judgments are un
searchable and His ways past finding out ; any more than
their not being able to believe would have been of disser
vice to them if they had been thus predestinated by God
to the illumination of their blindness and the taking away
of their heart of stone. 1 With respect to the Tyrians and
Sidonians, indeed, there may be possibly some other inter
pretation of the passage ; but that no one comes to Christ
except it be given him, and that this is given only to those
who are elected in Him before the foundation of the world,
this must beyond all question be admitted by every one
whose heart is not deaf to, while his ear hears, the Divine
oracles. De Dono Perseverantice, c. xiv.
: Again The Lord knows those that are His. All
things work together for good for those alone who are
called according to His purpose the called ; according to
His purpose, not the called simply, not the many called,
but the few chosen. For whom He did foreknow He also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren ; and
whom He did predestinate them also He called ; and whom
He called them also He justified and whom He ;
justified
1 Sed nee illis profuit quod pote- istis obfuisset quod non poterant
rant credere, quia prsedestinati non credere, si ita prjedestinati essent,
sunt ab eo cujus inscrutabilia sunt ut cos csecos Deus illuminaret, et in-
judicia, et investigabiles vise ; nee duratis cor lapideum vellet anferre.