Cap. 7 ultimum Patrum: open — Augustine In Joh. tract. 48 on sheep/price
Lest we seem to argue by empty labels, our last proof comes from the express witnesses of the Fathers and of later writers who give the predestined, in this death of Christ, a special privilege — nothing other than the sure attainment of grace and glory by God's special ordination, drawn from the dying Christ's merit and from his offering himself for them with a particular regard. Let Augustine speak first. 1. Outstanding is the word in In John, tractate 48 (vol. 9, p. 352): How did he say of those, YOU ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP? Because he saw them appointed to everlasting ruin, not bought for eternal life by his blood's price. Soon after: Of those sheep neither wolf snatches, nor thief carries off, nor robber kills. He who knows what he gave for them is sure of their number. Two points follow: first, our Savior offered his blood's price for redeeming the predestined in a special way — the way from which their sure salvation follows; second, for the passed-over or non-predestined he did not offer it that way, so they are denied to have been bought for eternal life by that price — meaning an absolute, efficacious ordering to eternal life that Christ's death is to carry out and bring into act.
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Sed ne nudis nominibus pugnare videamur, ultimum nostrum argumentum petetur ab expressis testimoniis Patrum & modernorum, qui praedestinatis in hac morte Christi specialem praerogativam assignant, quae alia non est quam infallibilis consecutio gratiae & gloriae secundum specialem Dei ordinationem a merito Christi morientis, & pro illis speciali quodam intuitu sese offerentis, derivata. Prodeat primo S. Augustinus. 1. Praeclarum est illud testimonium, In Joh. tract. 48. pag. 352. tom. 9. Quomodo istos dixit, NON ESTIS EX OVIBUS MEIS? Quia videbat eos ad sempiternum interitum praedestinatos, non ad vitam aeternam sui sanguinis pretio comparatos. Paulo post, De ovibus illis nec lupus rapit, nec fur tollit, nec latro interficit. Securus est de numero earum, qui pro eis novit quid dedit. Ex quibus verbis duo colligimus: Unum, Servatorem nostrum pro praedestinatis redimendis pretium sui sanguinis obtulisse speciali quodam modo, eo nimirum ex quo infallibilis salus eorundem consequatur. Alterum, pro praeteritis sive non-praedestinatis haud obtulisse sanguinem suum eo modo: unde negantur ad vitam aeternam sui sanguinis pretio comparati: quod intelligendum est de absoluta & efficaci ordinatione ad vitam aeternam per Christi mortem implenda, & in actum deducenda.