Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Augustinian Doctrine
CHAP. v.
to be old enough to hear, but died before receiving the
washing of regeneration to save them, are all justly con
demned ; inasmuch as they are none of them without sin,
original or actual. For all have sinned, either in Adam
or in themselves, and come short of the glory of God.
and were
The whole mass, therefore, deserves punishment ;
this inflicted
punishment upon all,
it would be inflicted
beyond all doubt justly. * <
It is unjust, say they, that
when both are in one and the same evil case, this man
should be liberated and that man punished. But it were
just that both should be punished. Who can deny this ?
Let us give thanks, then, to the Saviour, for that He does
not repay to us what, by the damnation of others like us,
we know to be our clue. Were every man liberated, it
would not be seen what sin deserved were no ;
man, what
grace could bestow .... But the whole lump deserving
condemnation, justice repays the due shame, grace bestows
the unmerited honour. 2 Forasmuch as that one man
in whom all have sinned is also in each individual pun
ished. 3 Grace alone separates the redeemed from the
lost, alone divides those whom a common original sin
formed into one mass of perdition ..... The whole
human mass was so justly condemned in the apostate root,
that, were none rescued from that damnation, none could
blame Grod s justice. Those who are rescued are rescued
those who are not, only show what the whole
gratuitously ;
lump deserved, even the rescued themselves, had not un
deserved mercy succoured them. 4 Divine Scripture
calleth those inexcusable whom it convicts of sinning
knowingly. But neither does the just judgment of Grod
"
spare them who have not heard : for as many as have
sinned without law shall also perish without law." And
however they may appear to excuse themselves, He admits
not this excuse who knows that He at first made man
upright, and gave him the commandment to obey ; and
that sin has not passed to his posterity but by his misuse
of freewill. Men are not condemned without having
1 De Nat. et Grat. c. iv.
2
Ep. 194. c. 2.
*
8
186. c. 4.
Ep.
Enchiridion,
c. 99.