{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050486.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050486.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050486.htm","text":"Chapter 31 [XXX.]\u2014Pelagius and C\u0153lestius Nowhere Really Acknowledge Grace.\nLet him amend all this, that if human infirmity has erred in subjects so profound, he may not add to the error diabolical deception and wilfulness, either by denying what he has really believed, or by maintaining what he has rashly believed, after he has once discovered, on recollecting the light of truth, that he ought never to have so believed. As for that grace, indeed, by which we are justified,\u2014in other words, whereby \u201cthe love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us,\u201d 1865 \u2014I have nowhere, in those writings of Pelagius and C\u0153lestius which I have had the opportunity of reading, found them acknowledging it as it ought to be acknowledged. In no passage at all have I observed them recognising \u201cthe children of the promise,\u201d concerning whom the apostle thus speaks: \u201cThey which are children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.\u201d 1866 For that which God promises we do not ourselves bring about by our own choice or natural power, but He Himself effects it by grace.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}