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On the Gift of Perseverance

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

The sequel to On the Predestination of the Saints and the last sustained work of the Pelagian controversy, written about a year before Augustine's death. It answers the objection that even if faith is given by grace, perseverance to the end must depend on the believer. Augustine argues that final perseverance is no less a gift than faith, asked for daily in the Lord's Prayer, and that those who fall away show they were never numbered among the predestined.

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