Theological Theses · §1910 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

They extend predetermination to evil acts as well as good

They hold that predetermination of this kind takes place not only in the good acts of free causes but in their evil acts too.

Since they think that the secondary cause depends on the first so completely that it can do nothing unless the first moves it and applies it to act as its instrument, they teach, consistently with that doctrine, that even for acts tainted with some malice and depravity the created will is premoved and predetermined by God in such a way that, once God's motion is given, it must do this or that.

Latin

XVIII. Istiusmodi vero praedeterminationem locum habere volunt non tantum in actibus bonis causarum liberarum, sed etiam in malis. Cum enim existiment eam esse causae secundae dependentiam a prima ut nihil omnino operari possit, nisi a prima moveatur, & ad agendum applicetur tanquam illius instrumentum, huic suo dogmati consentanee docent, etiam ad actus illos quibus adhaeret aliqua malitia & pravitas, Voluntatem creatam sic a Deo praemoveri & praedeterminari, ut posita Dei motione, illam hoc & illud agere necesse sit.

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