Cap. X Ultimum Prima: early anti-Pelagian councils did not expressly define absolute predestination — yet defined much that cannot stand if absolute gratuitous predestination is overturned; Faustus condemned
First we confess: the councils against Pelagius and the Semipelagians in Augustine’s time or the age just after his death—Diospolis, Milevis, Carthage, Orange, and others—did not expressly, directly, and particularly sanction absolute predestination or condemn foresight-election and reprobation. Yet we affirm that much defined in those councils cannot stand if absolute gratuitous predestination is overturned, or if that conditioned election and preterition is set up which Faustus, then others, and at last Arminius undertook to cultivate and defend. Add that Faustus’s books, which labor to fix conditioned election and explode the absolute, were condemned by the ancient church—clear from Gratian, Distinctio 15; the decree stands in the councils’ Tomus, sanctioned by Gelasius in a synod of seventy bishops. Hormisdas, asked about Faustus’s book, answers that catholic doctrine should be learned from Augustine and Prosper, not from Faustus.
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Primo, fatemur, Concilia quae celebrata fuerunt contra Pelagium et Semipelagianos ipsius Augustini temporibus, aut saeculo ab obitu ejus proximo, qualia fuerunt Diospolitanum, Milevitanum, Carthaginense, Arausicanum, aliaque nonnulla, non expresse, directe et particulariter sanxisse doctrinam de absoluta praedestinatione, aut condemnasse opinionem contrariam de electione et reprobatione ex praevisione diversorum actuum in hominibus. Illud tamen affirmamus, in hisce Conciliis multa fuisse definita quae stare non possunt absoluta et gratuita praedestinatione eversa, aut posita illa conditionata electione et praeteritione quam Faustus, et post illum alii nonnulli, ac tandem Arminius excolendam et defendendam susceperunt. Huc accedit, Fausti libros in quibus conditionatam illam electionem operose stabilire conatur, et absolutam explodere, damnatos fuisse ab antiqua Ecclesia, ut ex Gratiano liquet, Distinct. 15. Decretum extat a Tom. Conciliorum, et sancitum fuit a Gelasio in Synodo septuaginta Episcoporum. Hormisda etiam de Fausti libro consultus respondet, Doctrinam Catholicam ex Augustino et Prospero, non item e Fausto, disci oportere.