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This volume brings together writings from early and late stages of Augustine’s involvement in the Pelagian controversy. On Nature and Grace and On the Proceedings of Pelagius both date from AD 415–416 and constitute two of Augustine’s most extensive treatments of the actual words of Pelagius. On the Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Perseverance were probably written in AD 428, near...

of having faith does not distinguish one man from another; rather, faith itself distinguishes the believer from the unbeliever. Hence, when it is said, “For who distinguishes you? Or what do you have that you have not received?” whoever has the audacity to reply, “I have faith from myself, hence I did not receive it,” straightway contradicts this very evident truth—not because it is not in the free choice of the human will either to believe or not to believe, but because in the elect the will is
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