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grace is given according to our natural
Those among the Fathers who defended the gratuity of predestination against the Pelagians and Semipelagians, really aimed at safeguarding the gratuity of initial grace, in order not to be constrained to say with Pelagius that “the grace of God is given as a reward of merit.” 602 “What compelled me in this work of mine [ De Dono Perseverantiae ] to defend more abundantly and clearly those passages of Scripture in which predestination is commended,” says St. Augustine, “if not the Pelagian assertion that God's grace is given according to our [natural] merits?”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle


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