Cap. VIII Arg. 6: Fathers and Augustine — reprobates must acknowledge justice for their sins
Sixth: the reprobate are warned always to acknowledge in their reprobation the divine justice by which, for their own sins, they were deservedly reprobated. Therefore, say adversaries, they are reprobated from foresight of the demerits in which they are foresighted as finishing this life. Many Father-testimonies are brought, especially Augustine: On the Good of Perseverance 6 — By his own will each deserts God, that he may deservedly be deserted by God. On Grace and Free Will 21 — When you read in Scripture that men's hearts are hardened, do not doubt their evil deserts went before, that they might justly suffer it. Again, chapter 23 — When you hear the Lord say He has mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardens, in him whom God permits to be hardened believe his evil deserts; in him on whom God has mercy, acknowledge without doubt the grace that returns goods for evils. Most openly in Epistle 105: We seek the merit of hardening, and we find it. By desert of sin the universal mass is damned; those to whom God does not impart mercy merit that it not be imparted. From many such passages in Augustine and other Fathers, adversaries conclude that foresighted demerits with final lasting in them were the moving cause of divine reprobation.
Latin
Reprobi monentur, ut in sua reprobatione semper justitiam Divinam agnoscant, qua propter ipsorum peccata merito reprobati fuerunt: Ergo reprobantur ex praevisione demeritorum suorum, in quibus praevidentur hanc suam vitam finitori. Horsum afferuntur multa testimonia ex Patribus, atque nominatim ex ipso Augustino: Quale est illud, De bono persever. cap. 6. Voluntate sua quisque deserit Deum, ut merito deseratur a Deo. Item et illud, De gratia et libero arbitr. cap. 21. Cum legitis in sacris literis obdurari corda hominum, nolite dubitare praecessisse mala merita eorum, ut juste ista paterentur. Et rursus, Ibid. cap. 23. Quando auditis dicentem Dominum, Cujus vult miseretur et quem vult indurat, in eo quem permittit indurari mala ejus merita credite, in eo vero cujus miseretur, Gratiam Dei reddentis bona pro malis indubitanter agnoscite. Denique apertissime hoc asseritur Epistola 105, Quaerimus meritum obdurationis, et invenimus. Merito namque peccati universa massa damnata est, Quibus Deus misericordiam non impertitur, ut non impertatur merentur. Consimilia multa passim occurrunt apud Augustinum et alios Patres, ex quibus concludunt adversarii, Praevisa demerita, cum finali perduratione in iisdem, fuisse causam motivam reprobationis Divinae.