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The major portion of St. Augustine’s literary output listed, accounted for, and criticized by the author himself—such is the work here published in English translation for the first time. As the aged Augustine reread his extensive production, he sought to identify and to report to his widely scattered readership anything in his writings that had offended him or might offend others. In achieving...

works, he would obtain eternal life.”17 I had not yet sought diligently enough or discovered up to this time what is the nature of “the election of grace,” concerning which the same Apostle says: “There is a remnant [of the Israelites] left selected out of grace.”18 This certainly is not grace if any merits precede it; indeed then, what is given not according to grace, but according to debt, is given for merits rather than bestowed. Hence, I should not have written what I said immediately afterwards:
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