Contraried by Antiquitie.
Austin. in Enchir. ad Laurent. cap. 30. No man can beleeue, hope and loue, vnlesse hee will: but euen the selfe-same will to beleeue, hope, and loue, commeth not, but from God.
De gra. cont. Pelag. cap. 25. God doth not onely helpe vs to be able to worke, but worketh in vs to will and to worke: and in cap. 17. he saith, that God without vs doth worke in vs to will: and in Epist. 107. It is God, who by his secret calling worketh the minde of man to giue consent.
Prosper. de vocat. Gent. cap. 6. The turning of the heart vn∣to God, is of God: alledging the place of Ieremie 24. 7.
Fulgent. ad Monimum, lib. 1. Both our good will, and also our good workes are of God. And againe, this Father saith, We in no wise suffer, nay, according to wholesome Doctrine we forbid, whether in our faith, or in our workes, to challenge to our selues any thing as our owne.
S. Bernard de gra. & lib. arb. The creating of vs to freedome of will, is wrought without vs.
The Arausicane Councill. 2. cap. 4. determineth, that if any doe maintaine, that God expecteth our will, that wee may be purged from sinne, and doth not confesse, that by the infusi∣on and operation of the holy Ghost, it is also wrought in vs to be willing to bee purged, hee resists the Apostles Doctrine,