Durandus: God concurs with secondary causes only remotely and mediately
Durandus, a well-known figure among the older scholastics, held and taught that God concurs with secondary causes only remotely and mediately.
On his account God gave everything its own nature and essence, bestowed the power to act, and keeps both in being by his continual power. He did so on the understanding that each creature, by the power God once placed in it and always sustains, then carries out its own motions, without God touching its acts and effects directly and of himself. It follows that God is only the remote cause of what creatures do, and the creature alone is the proximate and immediate cause.
Latin
THESIS I. DURANDUS Vir inter Veteres Scholasticos celebris, censuit & docuit Deum cum causis secundis concurrere remote & mediate solum: nempe quia rebus omnibus propriam naturam & essentiam dedit, & facultatem agendi contulit, ac utramque Virtute sua continuo conservat: ea lege, ut creaturae singulae Virtute semel a Deo indita, & perpetuo conservata, proprios motus deinceps obeant; absque eo quod Deus earum actus & effectus immediate & per se attingat: Unde sequitur Deum actuum creaturae causam tantum remotam esse, solam vero creaturam causam proximam & immediatam.