Cap. VI Arg. 8: gift implies reception — Phil. 1:29; Augustine De corr. et grat.
This coheres neither with itself nor with Scripture. A faith or perseverance God gives to a particular person implies it is had on man's side. Some gifts include the reception itself — without reception they cannot even be understood as given. The good will of the believer and perseverer is such a gift: God never gave it to anyone who did not receive it. The question is not a gift prepared and offered under a contingent condition, but a gift truly and actually given to certain persons. Arminian reading fights Scripture: faith is given to those to whom it is given to believe — not merely to be able to believe (Phil. 1:29). Perseverance is pronounced given not to those who could have persevered and sprang back, but to those so strengthened by God's gift that they actually persevered. Augustine at length (On Rebuke and Grace 11–12): all predestined in Christ receive what Adam did not — help such that they not only can persevere if they will, but will, and in fact persevere.
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Sed haec parum coherent aut inter se aut cum Scripturis. Non inter se; quia fides aut perseverantia data singulari personae ex parte Dei, innuit obtentam et habitam ex parte hominis. Quaedam enim dona ejusmodi sunt, ut involvant ipsam receptionem, absque qua ne intelligi quidem possunt esse donata. Tale donum est bona voluntas credentis et perseverantis, quae nunquam fuit a Deo data ulli homini a quo non fuit accepta. Non enim quaeritur de dono parato et offerendo, atque sub conditione contingente dando certis personis, aut non dando, sed de dono certis personis vere et actualiter donato. Porro, cum Scripturis pugnat Arminiana illa fidei ac perseverantiae donatae interpretatio. Nam Scripturae dicunt fidem iis donatam quibus datum est ipsum credere, non quibus datum est solummodo ut possint credere, Phil. i. 29. Perseverantiam etiam illis datam pronunciant, non qui potuerunt perseverare et resilierunt, sed qui Divino munere ita corroborati et sustentati fuerint, ut ipso facto perseveraverint. Late hoc probat Augustinus, De Corr. et grat. cap. 11, 12. Ubi ostendit, dari jam omnibus praedestinatis in Christo, quod non fuit datum Adamo; nempe tale adjutorium, ut per illud non solummodo perseverare possint si velint, sed etiam ut velint, et reapse perseverent.