Ephes. 2. 8.
The text.
For by grace you are saued through faith (and that not of your selues, for it is the gift of God) ∴ not of works, that no man glorie.
The note.
It is said not of works as thine, of thy selfe being vnto thee, but as those, in which God hath made, formed, and created thee. August. de gratia, & lib. arbit. cap. 8. & seq.
The answer.
Bicause your owne credit will not stretch to qualifie the plain spéeches of the Apostle, you craue aide at Augustines hand. But he is your sworne enimie: and therefore meaneth to giue you verie slender helpe. For in the same place he telleth vs, that our good life is the grace of God fréely giuen vs: & that life eternal is also the grace of God fréely giuen to vs. And that God in Paule, and others his déere children, and saints, crowned his own gifts, and not their merits: be you not then ashamed to enforce his spéeches against his minde?