Theological Theses · §2083 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

These easily reconcile freedom with the decrees: the decrees follow the foreseen determination, so only consequent necessity arises

These men find it easy to reconcile the freedom of our choice with God's decrees. On their view the divine decrees follow God's foresight of the determination that will come from our will as its first root and cause.

So the divine decrees, no more than God's foreknowledge, give rise to any preceding necessity in our actions. They produce only a consequent necessity, which does not remove our freedom but presupposes it intact.

Latin

XXIII. Facile autem isti conciliant arbitrii nostri libertatem cum decretis divinis; quandoquidem juxta ipsos, decreta Divina sequuntur praevisionem determinationis, quae a voluntate nostra futura est, tanquam prima ejus radice & causa. Ac proinde non magis ex decretis Divinis quam ex Dei praescientia, ulla oritur in nostris actionibus necessitas praecedens, sed solum sequens, quae non tollit, sed integram supponit nostram libertatem.

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