Theological Theses · §1919 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Their view: God concurs by acting on the action and effect, not on the faculty

They therefore reason about God's concurrence quite differently. First, they hold that when God concurs and cooperates with secondary causes he does not do or impress anything on the faculty that acts, our will, for instance.

He only flows into and acts directly on the action itself and on the effect of the secondary cause, producing it at the very moment the secondary cause produces it.

Latin

XXVII. Itaque longe aliter de concursu illo Dei philosophantur. Primo enim statuunt, Deum cum causis secundis concurrentem & cooperantem non aliquid agere, aut imprimere in ipsam facultatem quae agit, exempli gratia, in voluntatem nostram; sed tantum immediate influere & agere in ipsam actionem, & effectum causae secundae, eamque producere illo ipso momento quo producitur a causa secunda.

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