William Ames: without predetermination man would be God's partner, not his subject
William Ames holds that premotion and predetermination of this kind must be admitted for secondary causes, and above all for the human will. Otherwise, in his judgment, the subordination of secondary causes to the first cause in their operations would be done away with.
Every operation of the human will would be removed from the rule of providence and from God's efficacious government. Man would be God's partner rather than his subject. Indeed God would hang on man's nod even in matters that weigh most in governing the whole world. Man would no longer have to say, 'If God wills, I shall do this or that'; rather God would have to say, 'If man wills, I shall do this or that' (Bellarminus enervatus, tome 4, book 4, chapter 2).
Latin
XLI. Ejusmodi causarum secundarum praemotionem & praedeterminationem, ac praecipue humanae voluntatis, admittendam statuit Gul. Amesius; quia alioquin, ipsius judicio, tolletur subordinatio causae primae & causarum secundarum in suis operationibus. Subtrahentur dominio providentiae, & gubernationi Dei efficaci, operationes omnes Voluntatis humanae. Homo non subditus, sed socius Dei erit. Imo Deus pendebit ex hominis nutu, etiam in iis quae praecipuam rationem habent in totius mundi procuratione. Nec homo dicere debebit, Si Deus voluerit faciam hoc aut illud; sed potius Deus dicere debebit, Si homo voluerit faciam hoc aut illud. In Bellarmino Enervato tomo quarto, libro quarto, capite secundo.