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S. AUGUST. lib. 1. de lib. arbit.
It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that free∣dome which man could not use, yet had power to keep if he would; and that be who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not, should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously when he had the power, should lose the power to doit, when he •…•…ad the will.HUGO de anima.
They are justly punished that abuse lawfull things, but they are most justly punished, that use unlawfull things: Thus Lucifer fell from Heaven: thus Adam lost his Paradise.