Cap. X Ultimum open: absolute predestination/preterition from mere divine good pleasure is not Augustine’s private opinion but received by anti-Pelagian councils — against Arminius/Corvinus
We now propose our last argument: to show that this teaching—the predestination of some and preterition of others from the mere good pleasure of the divine will, with no prior regard to opposite human acts, good or evil—was not some private opinion of Augustine or his disciples, but received and approved by the councils held against Pelagius and the Semipelagians. We do this because Arminius, Corvinus, and the other innovators boldly claim our doctrine was approved in no council—not even those against Pelagius. Yet certain premises must first be laid down.
Latin
Ultimum nostrum argumentum jam proponemus, in quo conabimur ostendere hanc sententiam de praedestinatione quorundam, et praeteritione aliorum ex mero voluntatis Divinae beneplacito, absque omni praecedaneo respectu ad oppositos hominum actus, sive bonos sive malos, non fuisse singularem quandam Augustini aut discipulorum ejus opinionem, sed receptam et probatam ab illis Conciliis quae contra Pelagium et Semipelagianos fuerunt celebrata. Hoc idcirco faciendum putavimus, quia Arminius, Corvinus, reliquique novatores confidenter asserunt, doctrinam hanc nostram in nullo Concilio fuisse approbatam, ne quidem in iis quae contra Pelagium fuere habita. Huic tamen argumento quaedam sunt a nobis necessario praemittenda.