Cap. 6 Arg. 8 Fathers reply: Fulgentius—saving grace not by a law of willing to take or refuse
Fulgentius everywhere beats back the Pelagian error that imagines saving grace prepared and offered to everyone in Christ the Redeemer under a kind of law: some have it because they willed to take it; others lack it because they willed to push it away. He teaches instead that the good will itself is given to some, and that everyone to whom it is not given cannot help but refuse it. We have already cited witnesses of that kind; now we add more. On the Truth of Predestination 1, p. 158: Not because we will have we received grace—nor was grace given even while we were willing. A little later, p. 159: Grace alone makes a good will in us; grace alone gives faith to the will. A will that does not have faith can have no merit toward receiving faith, because not to have faith is to displease God.
Latin
Fulgentius passim retundit hunc errorem Pelagianorum, putantium gratiam salutiferam ea quasi lege in Christo Redemtore paratam et oblatam omnibus hominibus, ut eam alii habeant quia voluerunt accipere, alii careant quia voluerunt repellere. Docet autem ipsam voluntatem bonam dari quibusdam, non posse autem non repelli ab omnibus quibus ea minime datur. Nonnulla testimonia ejusmodi attulimus, jam alia subjungemus. Lib. 1. De ver. praedest. pag. 158. Non utique quia volumus, gratiam accepimus, sed nec dum volentibus nobis gratia data est. Paulo post, pag. 159. Sola gratia in nobis bonam voluntatem facit, sola fidem ipsi voluntati tribuit. Nullum accipiendae fidei meritum potest habere voluntas, quae non habet fidem; quia non habere fidem est displicere Deo.