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***The fact that the Church slid into heresy happened well after Augustine.***

It becomes more and more fascinating. At what point did this blessed (for the Reformation) event happen?

***Augustine also said this:

Faith, then, as well in its beginning as in its completion, is God’s gift; and let no one have any doubt whatever, unless he desires to resist the plainest sacred writings, that this gift is given to some, while to some it is not given.
Would you agree?***

Google is not my friend in trying to track this down. Would you please provide a website for me to go to?

It becomes more and more fascinating. At what point did this blessed (for the Reformation) event happen?

I've traced it back to around 600AD when the Pope allowed both Augustine's and Cassian's theologies to coexist in the Church.

HD-Faith, then, as well in its beginning as in its completion, is God’s gift

MarkBsnr-Google is not my friend in trying to track this down. Would you please provide a website for me to go to?

"...except that it is impossible to withstand the most manifest divine testimony, by which faith, whence piety takes its beginning, is shown also to be the gift of God: such as is that testimony that "God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith;" [Rom. 12.3]-Augustine

I'm sure you can look up Romans 12 without a Google.