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Note X. 363<br />

dedit; ita quoque cujuslibet adjutorii c<strong>on</strong>cursus, sive natu-<br />

ralis sive gratuiti, etiamsi esset tanta? prastantia? adjutorium<br />

quantam vel angelica cogitatio comminisci posset,<br />

imo etiamsi esset vel ipsa essentia Dei per moduin speciei<br />

ad sui visi<strong>on</strong>em, vel per modum gratias ad sui amorem<br />

c<strong>on</strong>currentis, similiter prorsus noster sit ; si videlicet sic<br />

solam possibilitatem adjuvet, et usus ejus et n<strong>on</strong> usus in<br />

libero relinquatur arbitrio. Jansen, De Gratia Christi,<br />

1. 2. c. 9.<br />

Hanc ergo mentem Pelagianorum cum prospectara<br />

haberet Augustinus, quod quicquid motuum vel Dens vel<br />

Diabolus in voluntate suscitaret, isti dominativa* vohmtatis<br />

potestati subderent, n<strong>on</strong> fuit sollicitus iitrum gratiam Irgis<br />

atque doctrinse, sive revelati<strong>on</strong>em sapientijv. sive cxemplum<br />

Christi, sive remissi<strong>on</strong>em peccatorum, sive habitus b<strong>on</strong>os,<br />

sive succensi<strong>on</strong>es ac desideria volimtatis assererent ; sod<br />

generalissime prophanum eorum dogma quo solum possi<br />

bilitatem adjuvari gratia censebant, ubicunque vel qualemcunque<br />

p<strong>on</strong>erent gratiam, velut exploratum errorem<br />

Scripturisque c<strong>on</strong>trarium jugulat. . . . Quamvis enim in<br />

gratiam legis plerumque magis propendere videretur, n<strong>on</strong><br />

satis tamen certum erat Augustino quam gratiam tarn<br />

vario magnificorum verborum strepitu Pelagius tune de-<br />

fenderet, cum nunc legem, mine doctrinam, mine sapiential<br />

revelati<strong>on</strong>em, nunc exemplum Christi, mine peccati remis<br />

si<strong>on</strong>em, nunc voluntatum succensi<strong>on</strong>em, nunc desideria<br />

a Deo suscitata celebraret. Fatetur hanc suam incertitudinem<br />

passim toto libro Augustinus. . . . Itaque ut<br />

omnis erroribus istis latebra clauderetur, sub quatibet, et<br />

qualilibet, et ubicumque c<strong>on</strong>stituta gratia<br />

sua in eos tela<br />

dirigit. . . . Nimirum quia utrobique Augustinus quam-<br />

libet, qualemlibet, ubilibet c<strong>on</strong>stitutam gratiam quisque<br />

tueatur, si solam voluntatis et actioms<br />

possibilitatem<br />

adjuvet, eum sanse et Apostolicaa et doctrinae<br />

Evangelic<br />

violataB reum facit. Jansen, De Gratia 1. Christi, 2. c. 10.

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