The Second Council of
Orange (529)
Canon 3. “If anyone says that the grace of
God can be conferred as a result of human prayer, but that it is not grace itself which
makes us pray to God, he contradicts the prophet Isaiah, or the Apostle who says
the same thing,
"I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for
me" (Romans 10:20, quoting Isaiah 65:1).”
Canon 4. “If anyone maintains that God awaits
our will to be cleansed from sin, but does not confess that even our will to be cleansed
comes to us through
the infusion and working of the Holy Spirit, he resists the Holy Spirit himself who says through
Solomon, "The will is prepared by the Lord" (Proverbs 8:35, and the
salutary word of the Apostle, "For God is at work in you, both to will and to work
for his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13).”