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IV.And it is immediate or mediate.Immediate is that by which God without a creatures medium, by His single will things — as heaven and earth in the beginning, angels, the rational soul.
VI.Mediate is that by which things are produced from principles already created, God yet primarily acting — as plants, animals from earth and waters on the following days.
VII.But the existence of things mediately created hangs no less from God than of those immediately created; for God works in all things.
Latin
IV. Estque immediata aut mediata. Immediata est, qua Deus sine medio creaturae, solo nutu voluntatis, res producit — ut caelum et terra in principio, angeli, anima rationalis. VI. Mediata est, qua res e principiis jam creatis, Deo tamen primario agente, producuntur — ut plantae, animalia e terra et aquis diebus sequentibus. VII. Exsistentia vero rerum mediate creatarum non minus a Deo pendet quam immediate creatarum; Deus enim in omnibus operatur.