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CHAP. v. of Predestination. 137
called, but not chosen ; and, therefore, not called accord
ing to His purpose. The former are the children of
promise, the elect, who are saved according to the election
"
of grace, as it is written, But if of grace, then no more
of works, otherwise is grace no more These grace." are
the vessels of mercy, in whom Grod even by means of
the vessels of wrath makes known the riches of His
glory But the rest of mankind who do not
pertain to this society, but whose soul and body, never
theless, Grod hath made, together with whatever also
belongs to their nature apart from its corruption are
created by a foreknowing (rod on this account, that by
them He may show how little the freewill of fallen man
can do without His grace and ; that by their just and due
punishment the vessels of mercy, who are separated from
the original mass not by their own works, but by the free
grace of Grod, may know how great a gift has been be
stowed upon them, that every mouth may be stopped, and
that he that glorieth may glory in the Lord. 1
Epist.
186, c. vii.
The general conclusion to which these
passages point,
is that S. Augustine held the predestinarian doctrine ;
viz. that God by an eternal decree prior to any difference
of desert, separated one portion of mankind from another,
ordaining one to eternal life and the other to eternal
punishment. 2 But it will be proper to enter into some
distinctions which are drawn on this subject in order to
s doctrine from another and a dif
separate S. Augustine
ferent doctrine of predestination.
A certain limited and qualified doctrine of predesti
nation is held by some schools of divines opposed to the
predestinarians, who maintain the doctrine to be a sound
and scriptural one, but maintain the predestination to be
first to privileges and means of grace^not to final happi
ness ; or, secondly, if to final happiness, to be a predesti-
1 Ut in his ostenderet liberum gratia sunt ab ilia concretione disarbitrium
sine sua gratia quid valeret
ut in eorum ; justis et debitis
creta, quid sibi collatum esset addis-
cerent.
poenis vasa misericordiae, quse non 2 See Hooker s Statements of S,
suorum meritis, sed gratuita Dei Augustine s Doctrine. NOTE XIX.
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