Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

CHAP vin. of Freewill. 219
because the man acts willingly and without constraint.
The human will is not taken away, but is changed from
evil to good by grace voluntas humana non tollitur, sed
ex mala mutatur in bonamS !
Freewill is one of the
gifts of Grod not ; only itself but the goodness of it non
tantum ut sit sed etiam ut bonum sit. 2
It is certain
that when we will, we will but it is He who makes ; us to
will certum est nos velle cum volumus, sed ille facit ut
velimus bonum. It is certain that when we do we do ;
but He makes us to do, by giving the most effective strength
to the will cerium est nos facere cum facimus, sed ille
facit ut faciamus, prcebendo vires efficacissimas voluntati.
3 Some will to believe, others do not because the
;
will of some is prepared by God, the will of others is not
aliis prceparatur aliis non prceparatur voluntas a
Domino Mercy and justice have been respectively
exerted in the very wills of men misericordia et judicium
in ipsis voluntatibus facia sunt. 4 That is to say,
the will is moved and determined by Divine grace, but it
is still will, and freewill.
A higher sense, however, than that of freedom from
constraint and force, or simple willingness, though at the
same time including this latter sense, is sometimes given
to the term freewill ; viz., that of freedom from the yoke
and bondage of sin, the dominion of evil inclinations and
passions. The term freedom is raised from its neutrality
and appropriated to a good condition of the will ; such
condition being still, however, not freedom in the sense of
power of choice, but a state of servitude to good, the
contradictory of servitude to evil.
S. Paul speaks of two bondages, a bondage to righte
ousness and a bondage to sin and of two ;
freedoms, a free
dom from righteousness and a freedom from sin. And
S. Augustine, following him, says : The will is always free
in us, but not always good; for either it is free from
righteousness, and under bondage to sin, or it is free from
c. 6.
1 De Grati4 et Lib. Arb. n. 41.
2 De Pecc. Merit, et Kern. 1. 2.
s De Gratia et Lib. Arb. n. 32.
4 De Prsed. Sanct. c. 6.