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A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination: Third Edition
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Augustine pointed out this division when he said: “Predestination [about the good] is the preparation for grace,”1 signifying by this expression that it must be distinguished from predestination to what is bad, that is, unto punishment.
We know that in the Epistle to the Philippians the apostle said, "To write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe;" yet the same apostle, writing to the Galatians, when he saw that he had done enough ...
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On the Predestination of the Saints
Wherein the truth of predestination and grace is defended against the semi-Pelagians, --those people to wit, who by no means withdraw altogether from the Pelagian heresy, in that they contend that the beginning of salvation and of faith is ...
A new edition of Augustine's influential philosophical and theological treatise.
Included are "A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints" and "A Treatise on the Gift of Predestination".Written shortly before his death, these two works are St. Augustine's own summation of his thoughts on this most important doctrine ...