St. Prosper on the Will of God (c.390–c.455)

2030 [Sent. super Cap. 8]
Again, whoever says that God does not will all men to be saved, but only the certain number of the predestined, is saying a harsher thing than ought to be said of the inscrutable depth of the grace of God, who both wills that all should be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4), and fulfills the proposal of His will in those whom, when He foreknew them, He predestined, when He predestined them, He called, when He called them, He justified, and, when He justified them, He glorified (Rom. 8:30). . . . And thus, those who are saved are saved because God willed them to be saved, and those who perish do perish because they deserved to perish.

William A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, 3:190.

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QUALIFICATION OF ARTICLE 8: Likewise, he who says that God will not have all men to be saved but only the fixed number of the predestined, speaks more harshly than we should speak of the depth of the unsearchable grace of God.

God, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth fulfills this free decree of His in those whom He foreknew and predestined, predestined and called, called and justified, justified and glorified. In so doing, He does not lose anyone that belongs to that fullness of the nations and to that completeness of the race of Israel for whom the eternal kingdom was prepared in Christ before the creation of the world. Out of the entire world the whole world of the elect is chosen; out of the totality of men the totality of the elect are adapted. Nor can the unbelief and disobedience of many annul the promise God made to Abraham: In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”Whatsoever God has promised, He is able to perform.’” And so the elect are saved because God willed them to be saved, and the reprobate are lost because they deserve to be lost.

Prosper of Aquitaine, “Answers to the Gauls,” in Defense of St. Augustine, trans. P. De letter (New York: Newman Press, 1963), 159. Latin souce:

VIII. Item, qui dicit quod non omnes homines velit-Deus salvos fieri, sed certum numerum praedestinatorum; durius loquitur, quam loquendum est, de altitudine inscrutabilis gratiae Dei: qui et omnes vult salvos fieri, atque in agnitionem veritatis venire (I Timoth. II, 4); et voluntatis suae propositum in eis implet, quos praescitos praedestinavit, praedestinatos vocavit, vocatos justificavit, justificatos glorificavit (Rom. VIII, 29, 30): nihil amittens de plenitudine gentium, et de omni semiue Israel, cui praeparatum est in Christo regnum aeternum ante constitutionem mundi (Matth. XXV, 34). Ex toto enim mundo totus mundus eligitur, et ex omnibus hominibus omnes homines adoptantur. Nec potest ullo modo per infidelitatem atque inobedientiam multorum, Dei promissio vacillare, dicentis ad Abraham, In semine tuo benedicentur omnes gentes (Gen. XXII, 18; XXVI, 4). Quod autem promisit Deus, potens est et facere (Rom. IV, 21): ut et qui salvantur, ideo salvi sint, quia illos voluit Deus salvos fieri; et qui pereunt, ideo pereant, quia perire meruerunt.

Prosper Aquitanus, Responsiones ad capitula Gallorum (PL 45, 1841–42).