Vasquez reports some who say God foreordained our works only in general, lest necessity or a lack of the decree follow
Gabriel Vasquez attributes a similar view to some of his own school, in volume 1 on Thomas, disputation 99, chapter 5, where he reports their various positions on this question. 'Finally,' he says, 'some, overwhelmed by this difficulty, say that God from eternity did not will our works one by one, but only in general, and determined in a universal way that he is ready to act with anyone according to that person's determination.'
Vasquez adds that they adopt this view in order to maintain that God's foreordination imposes no necessity on our will against its freedom. A further reason is this. If God had to foreordain and will from eternity even the works of grace one by one, those who do not act and do not consent to the call would lack something necessary for acting, namely that decree. It would then be no wonder that they did not act, since without it they could not.
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XX. Similem quoque sententiam quibusdam ex suis tribuit Gabriel Vasquez tomo primo in Thomam disputatione nonagesima nona capite quinto. Ubi referens varia suorum hac de re placita. Demum, inquit, aliqui hac oppressi difficultate dicunt Deum ab aeterno non voluisse opera nostra sigillatim, sed in genere tantum, & in universum definisse paratum esse cum quovis operari, juxta ipsius determinationem. Quibus subjungit illos hanc opinionem amplecti, ut defendant ex praefinitione Dei nullam necessitatem imponi nostrae voluntati contra libertatem suam. Tum etiam quia si necessarium esset Deum praefinire, & velle ab aeterno opera etiam gratiae sigillatim, sequeretur iis qui non operantur, neque vocationi consentiunt, aliquid necessarium deesse ad operandum, scilicet decretum illud, ac proinde mirum non esse si non operarentur, cum sine illo operari non possint.