St Augustine on Losing Faith & Righteousness

The quote below, once again demonstrates that St Augustine believed that a person could fall from grace, faith, and righteousness. While it is true that St Augustine believed that the predestinate would infallibly die in a state of grace, he held that no one knew if they were of that number since such a person had not yet actually perservered until death. Thus assurance depended on the act of final perseverence in Christ at the moment of death.

For if any one have continence, and fall away from that virtue and become incontinent,--or, in like manner, if he have righteousness, if patience, if even faith, and fall away, he is rightly said to have had these virtues and to have them no longer; for he was continent, or he was righteous, or he was patient, or he was believing, as long as he was so; but when he ceased to be so, he no longer is what he was.

On the Gift of the Predestination of the Saints Chapter 1

The quotes, when I am able, will be linked so you can go and read them yourself.

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