Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

Note XXL 399
transfert; sed residere in ipsis testatur. Nos vero non
ideo reprobos tradimus destitui Dei Spiritu, ut sceleruui
suorum culpam in Deum imputent. Quicquid peccant
homines sibi imputent. Quod si quis subterfugiat, con-
scientiae vinculis fortius constringi dico, quam ut se a justa
damnatione expediat. ... Si quis obstrepat, prompta est
Perditio tua ex te Israel. . . . Non audiendi
exceptio,
sunt qui procul remotas causas e nubibus accersunt, ut
culpse suae notitiam, quae et eorum cordibus penitus in-
sidet, neque occulta latere potest, utcunque obscurent.
p. 721.
The cautions and checks, then, which Calvin appends
to the doctrine of predestination
are substantially the same
with those we find appended to the doctrine in S. Augustine
and the Augustinian schoolmen. Predestination, according
to Calvin, is no excuse for spiritual
indolence or careless
ness ; it does not detract at all from man s responsibility,
who is as much to blame for his sins upon this doctrine as
upon the contrary one; and therefore whether we look to
the fundamental statement of the doctrine, or to the checks
the doctrine of
and cautions with which it is surrounded,
Calvin on this subject
is seen to be the same as that of
S. Augustine.
It is true Calvin condemns the scholastic treatment of
this question, and after S. Augustine nobody, except
perhaps S. Bernard, seems to satisfy him. But this com
plaint is qualified. He acknowledges, in the first place,
that however their own of such doctrines
interpretations
may have fallen short, the fundamental doctrines of the
schools were Augustinian and orthodox on this question :
Qui postea secuti sunt, alii alios in detenus contmuo
post
delapsi sunt; donee eo ventum est ut vulgo putaretur
. . . Interea
homo sensuali tandem parte corruptus.
tavit illud in ore omnium, naturalia dona in homne
vero ablata. Sed quorsum
corrupta esse, supernaturalia
tenderet, vix cente^imus quisque leviter gustavit.
certe si dilucide tradere velim sit naturae
qualis
corrupt
his verbis facile sim contentus. Instit. 1. 2. c. As. 4
in the teaching of the
He admits here a certain foundation