The later Thomists: every free act predetermined by absolute decree before any foreseen determination (Alvarez)
To begin with the so-called recent Thomists: on their teaching, everything that occurs and is carried out in the world, and so also every free act of the will, was individually predetermined and predefined by God. God did this by an absolute and efficacious will, prior in reason to his foreseeing any determination of the created will, whether it was to come about absolutely or only on some condition.
This is the express view of Diego Alvarez, Archbishop of Trani and Salpi, among others, in the summary of his work on the helps of divine grace, book 2, chapter 5, which begins: 'From the sacred writings, if they are carefully weighed, we have it that God by his absolute and efficacious will predetermined all acts in particular, free ones included, that are to come about in time.
He did so prior in the sign of reason to the divine intellect's knowing that those acts would come about, even on the hypothesis that the created will were placed in such an order of things and in such circumstances.'
Latin
V. Et primo quidem qui dicuntur Thomistae recentiores docent quaecunque in mundo contingunt & geruntur, ac proinde etiam liberos voluntatis actus, sigillatim a Deo praedeterminata & praedefinita esse, idque absoluta & efficaci voluntate, prius ratione quam Deus ullam voluntatis creatae determinationem praevideret, sive absolute, sive sub conditione futuram. Haec est expressa sententia inter alios Didaci Alvarez Archiepiscopi Tranensis & Salpensis in summa Operis de auxiliis divinae gratiae, libro secundo, capite quinto, quod incipit his verbis, Ex divinis literis, si attente perpendantur, habemus quod Deus sua absoluta & efficaci voluntate praedeterminavit omnes actus etiam liberos in particulari, futuros in tempore, prius in signo rationis, quam intellectus divinus cognosceret actus illos esse futuros, etiam ex hypothesi quod voluntas creata constitueretur in tali ordine rerum, & in talibus circumstantiis.