had never before been heard of, which had no
evidential sanction from the writings of the Fathers
that preceded him, and which was notoriously
contrary to the received sense of the Church
Catholic. p. 96.
3. Augustine's reply to the allegation. p. 99.
(1.) His attempt to enlist the Church Catholic in his
cause. p. 103.
(2.) His adduction of Cyprian and Gregory-Nazianzen
and Ambrose. p. 105.
4. The Council of Orange. A. D. 441. p. 111.
II. Calvin ventures not an appeal to any higher antiquity
than that of Augustine, save in so far as he repeats,
after his own fashion, Augustine's appeal. p. 115.
1. While, omitting Cyprian and Gregory-Nazianzen as
evidently conscious of their total irrelevancy, he
mentions Ambrose alone; he unfairly employs
language, which would lead an unguarded reader to
suppose, that Augustine claimed as his own the
suffrage of All Christian Antiquity. p. 116.
2. By way, apparently, of exciting prejudice against the
allegation of the Massilian Christians, he most
inaccurately intimates: that. That allegation was
preferred by THE PELAGIANS with whom Augustine
was then engaged in controversy. p. 117.
(1.) The very language of Augustine to the Massilian
Christians shews, that he was proposing to them
a novelty. p. 122.
(2.) He himself elsewhere confesses, that his view of
Election was the result of his own research and
discovery: whence plainly it follows, that he
had not received it from his catechetical
instructors under the aspect of the ancient and
authorised doctrine of the Church. p. 123.