Amyraut on evil acts: an external and an internal act of providence
In the same way, with respect to evil acts, he teaches that Providence acts in two ways, one external and the other internal. The external act, he says, concerns two things. 'Either it is engaged in presenting objects fitted to stir the faculties, or it consists in this: God does nothing himself, but allows and permits the devil to exercise his working, so as to add to the force of the objects.'
God's internal act in the evil deeds of human beings consists, according to him, in this: out of the many objects leading to evil that a person turns over in his mind, God either obscures one or removes it from the mind altogether, or else arranges for some one object to be presented from the side on which it is most apt and suited to move. In none of this, likewise, can there be anything harmful to human freedom.
Latin
L. Similiter quoad actus malos, circa eos docet esse duplicem Providentiae actum, unum externum, & alterum internum. Et externum quidem dicit circa duo occupari. Vel enim, inquit, versatur in propositione objectorum, quae facultates commovere idonea sunt: Vel in eo consistit, quod Deus nihil agit quidem, sed sinit & patitur Diabolum ἐνέργειαν suam explicare, ut objectorum efficacitatem adjuvet. Internus autem Dei actus, qui in malis hominum operibus intervenit, in eo juxta ipsum consistit, quod Deus ex pluribus objectis ad malum inducentibus, quae homo in mente agitat, unum vel obscurat, vel omnino ex mente eripit, aut etiam unum aliquod objectum ab ea parte offerri procurat, qua est maxime aptum, & idoneum ad movendum. In quibus omnibus pariter nihil potest officere humanae libertati.