Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

The Argument
ordaining it so, and so pushes back the ground
CHAP. i.
of fact
immediately to one of philosophical principle. 1
have not without detriment to their consistency as reasoners,
mixed the two grounds. The ground which S. Augustine
adopted and which the Jansenists revived, was in the mam
that of Scripture, though the former joined
to it occa
sionally that of philosophy 1
: the medieval predestinanans
took in the main the ground
of philosophy, mixing with it
occasionally that of Scripture. The theory of necessity
last described, was adopted under the name of the physical
predetermination of the will by this medieval school, 2
who maintained that there could be but one true cause of
and inter
every event, all other causes being secondary
mediate and it
; applying
to the case of human actions,
4
had a or a
explained that though they
voluntary cause,
cause in the human will, this was only secondary and inter
mediate between the agent and the first cause ; protecting
this position from the consequence which it apparently in
volved in the case of evil actions, that God was the author
of evil, by distinctions which it is not necessary here to
state ; yet the same writers referred to the fact of the fall
as the ground of the doctrine of predestination. 3 Predestinarian
preachers, again, guided half by sentiment and
half by theory, are accustomed, though using the scriptural
ground as their basis on this question, to speak of the
doctrine of freewill as an insult to the Divine Power, which
1 NOTE I. doctrine of efficacious grace, which
At qui omnium connexionem re- rests upon original sin. Predeterrumquo
causarum qua fit omne quod minatio physica necessaria statuitur
fit, fati nomine appellant ; non mul- omnibus agentibus ex vi causse
turn cum iis de verbi controversia secundse quse essentialiter tarn in
certandum atque laborandum est, operari quam in esse suo subordina-
quandoquidem ipsam causarum ordi- tur primse, a qua ad agendum prsenem
et quandam connexionem, summi moveri debet ; Christi adjutorium
Dei tribuunt voluntati. De Civit. nequaquam sed Isesse voluntati Dei, 1. 5. c. 8.
propter
sohim vulnus necessarium est.
2 Jansen draws the distinction De Grat. Christi Salvatoris, 1. 8. c.
between the theory of the predeter- 1, 2.
minatio physica of the will ex s Ratio reprobationis est origi-
philosophia profecta, and which nale peccatum. Aquinas, vol. viii.
defenditur a sectatoribus sancti p. 330.
Thomse, and the predestinarian