Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Augustinian
CHAP.
fruit. The former is only the admission of the obvious
fact, that man has a capacity, in the first instance, both
for good and evil an admission which is
; quite consistent
with the subsequent necessity of either in him ; just as a
one out of
material is capable,
in the first instance, of any
many different forms; but when it lias once received a
particular form, is necessarily
of that form which it has
received.
The whole of the book, however, De Gratia Ckristi, is
one comment on the adjutorium voluntcitis ei actionis, a,s
involving the sense of irresistible grace, as the following
passage on illuminating grace will exemplify: Our Lord
"
saith, Every man that bath heard and hath learned of
the Father, cometh unto Me. Whosoever therefore doth
not come, of him it is not right to "
say, He hath heard
arid learned, indeed, that he should come, but he does not
will to do what he has learned." That is not rightly said,
it we speak of that mode of teaching which (rod employs
"
through grace. For if, as the truth saith. Every man
that hath learned, cometh, if any man hath not come,
neither hath he learned. It is true, indeed, a man comes
or does not come, according to the choice of his will. But
this choice is alone if he does not come ; it cannot but be
assisted if he does come ; and so assisted as that he not
only knows what he should do, but also does what he
knows. Wherefore, when God teaches not by the letter
of the law, but by the grace of the spirit, He so teaches as
that what a man learns he not only perceives by knowing
it, but also pursues by willing it, and accomplishes by
doing it. By that Divine mode of teaching will itself and
action itself, not only the natural power of willing and
acting, are assisted. by
For, were our poiver alone assisted
this grace, our Lord would have "
said, Every man
that hath heard or hath learned of the Father is able, to
come to Me."
"
But He has not said this, but Every man
that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh
unto Me." Every man that hath learned of the
Father is not only able to come, but comes ; wherein not