The Treatise of St. Bernard Abbat of Clairvaux: Concerning Grace and Free Will, Addressed to William, Abbat of St. Thierry (Biblia.com)

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Watkin W. Williams translates from the original Latin into English St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s treatise Concerning Grace and Free Will. Williams provides abundant notes and commentary on St. Bernard’s exposition, as well as an in-depth introduction.

What part is to be assigned to grace, arid what to free choice, in the work of salvation. WHAT then? Is this, therefore, all that free choice doth in the matter? Is this its sole merit, to consent? Certainly it is. Not indeed that even the very act of consent, in which consisteth its entire merit, is of itself; since not so much as “to think” (which is less than to consent) “anything as of ourselves, are we of ourselves sufficient.”1 These are not my words, but the Apostle’s, who attributeth

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