Theological Theses · §2089 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So God foreordained men's acts only by placing them in states and supplying aids and occasions, imposing no necessity

They hold, therefore, that God preordained and predefined men's actions only in this sense: he willed to create them in that state and to supply them with the motives, aids and occasions for acting from which he foresaw that they would act in such a way and would produce these volitions rather than those.

All the while it remained in their power to act this way or otherwise, since none of these things imposed on them any necessity of acting this way rather than another.

Latin

XXIX. Igitur non aliter volunt Deum praeordinavisse & praedefinivisse hominum actiones, quam quia voluit illos in eo statu creare, eaque agendi motiva auxilia, & occasiones iis subministrare, unde consequi praevidebat illos tali modo acturos, hasque potius quam illas volitiones elicituros esse; quanquam semper in eorum potestate maneret, vel sic, vel aliter agere; nulla nempe necessitate per omnia ista ipsis imposita, sic potius quam aliter agendi.

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