{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050485.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050485.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050485.htm","text":"Chapter 30 [XXIX.]\u2014What Pelagius Thinks is Needful for Ease of Performance is Really Necessary for the Performance.\nIn like manner, in another passage of the same book, he says: \u201cIn order that men may more easily accomplish by grace that which they are commanded to do by free will.\u201d Now, expunge the phrase \u201cmore easily,\u201d and you leave not only a full, but also a sound sense, if it be regarded as meaning simply this: \u201cThat men may accomplish through grace what they are commanded to do by free will.\u201d The addition of the words \u201cmore easily,\u201d however, tacitly suggests the possibility of accomplishing good works even without the grace of God. But such a meaning is disallowed by Him who says, \u201cWithout me ye can do nothing.\u201d 1864","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}