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The Church Fathers · 428–429
On the Predestination of the Saints
Augustine of Hippo · 354–430
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What it is
A late work written for monks in Gaul, arguing that even the beginning of faith is God's gift and not a human contribution that God then rewards.
Why it lasted
The hardest edge of Augustine's teaching on grace, and the direct source of the Reformed doctrine of election.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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