Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Note VIII.
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hath any, would quickly cut off their progress with a dis
tinction of visibile ut quod, et visibile ut quo, and show
that the major, though universally true of every subject or
body that may be seen, did not nor could not comprehend
colour by which they are made visible, and by whose
formal act they are denominated colorata. The fallacy of
the former objection drawn into mood and figure is the
same, but more apparent.
Every will or work of man must be utterly renounced
from the act of justification or conversion :
But to deny ourselves and renounce all works is a work :
Ergo,
This work must be excluded from the suit of
mercy, as no way available. Vol. ix. p. 442.
ground
But such a distinction as this applied to works as a
of the Divine election is inadmissible. The work of
faith is a work ; not in such an ambiguous sense as that in
which colour is a visible thing, but substantially and cor
rectly. It is a humble, self-renouncing act. It is the
fundamental act of the Christian life. If election, then, is
in consequence of this foreseen work of faith, it is in con
sequence of good works, which it is plainly said by S. Paul
not to be.
Jackson borrows his explanation from Origen, who im
plies the same distinction between carnal works and
other works, as the ground of Jacob s election. Quod si
vel Isaac vel Jacob pro his meritis electi fuissent a Deo
quce in came positi acquisierant, et per opera carnis
justificari meruissent, posset utique meriti eorum gratia ad
posteritatem carnis Nunc vero cum
quoque pertinere.
electio eorum non ex operibus
facta sit, sed ex proposito
Dei, et ex vocantis arbitrio, promissionum gratia non in
filiis carnis impletur,
sed in filiis Dei. In Rom. ix. 11.
vol. iv. p. 613. Thus Jackson : Had not this purpose of
God been revealed before the children had been born,
Jacob s posterity would have boasted that either their father
Jacob or his mother Eebecca had better observed those
rites and customs wherein they placed righteousness than
Isaac or Esau had done and that God ; upon these motives
Jacob before
had bestowed the birthright or blessing upon