Within the Reformed School: whether every necessity properly so called conflicts with freedom
The dispute that remains within the Reformed School, among the very theologians who admit that freedom of choice is opposed not only to compulsion but also to necessity, seems no weightier.
Some of them teach without qualification that every necessity in the proper sense conflicts with freedom. Others grant that freedom is opposed to natural necessity but insist that necessity of many kinds can coexist with that same freedom of choice. A free agent, they say, can have a certain necessity of acting laid on it by the efficacy of God's grace and providence, or even by the mind's practical judgment, and that necessity does freedom no harm.
Latin
XV. Neque majoris momenti videtur controversia quae in Schola Reformata manet inter illos ipsos Theologos qui fatentur arbitrii libertatem opponi non coactioni tantum, sed etiam necessitati: dum alii simpliciter docent omnem proprie dictam necessitatem libertati repugnare: alii vero concedunt quidem libertatem oppositam esse naturali necessitati, veruntamen pertendunt multiplicem necessitatem cum eadem arbitrii libertate consistere posse: nimirum agenti libero posse quandam agendi necessitatem imponi per efficaciam gratiae & providentiae divinae, aut etiam per mentis judicium practicum; quae tamen necessitas libertati nihil noceat.