37. [XXXIV.]—Pelagius Nowhere Admits the Need of Divine Help for Will and Action.
I also have read those books or writings of his which he mentions in the letter which he sent to Pope Innocent, of blessed memory, with the exception of a brief epistle which he says he sent to the holy Bishop Constantius; but I have nowhere been able to find in them that he acknowledges such a grace as helps not only that “natural capacity of willing and acting” (which according to him we possess, even when we neither will a good thing nor do it), but also the will and the action itself, by the ministration of the Holy Ghost.
CAPUT XXXIV.
37. Illos etiam, quos in eisdem litteris, quas misit ad sanctae memoriae papam Innocentium, libros suos vel scripta commemorat, legi, praeter unam epistolam, quam se brevem misisse ad sanctum Constantium episcopum dicit: nec alicubi potui reperire, hanc eum gratiam confiteri, qua non solum possibilitas naturalis voluntatis et actionis, quam dicit nos habere etiamsi nec volumus nec agimus bonum, sed ipsa etiam voluntas et actio subministratione sancti Spiritus adjuvatur.