Harder still: acts to which malice is necessarily joined, predefined by the effective decree, make God author
No less harsh is their claim that the very actions to which malice is necessarily attached were predefined by God's effective decree.
How will God not be the author of sin if by his eternal decree he predefined the act by which someone hates God himself and blasphemes his name, and in time, in line with his decree, premoves and predetermines the man to that kind of act?
Latin
XLII. Nec minus durum est quod dicunt decreto Dei effectivo praedefinitas esse illas ipsas actiones quibus necessario malitia annexa est. Quomodo enim Deus autor peccati non erit, si aeterno suo decreto praedefinivit actum illum quo aliquis Deum ipsum odit, & nomen illius blasphemat, & juxta decretum suum, hominem in tempore ad istam actus speciem praemovet & praedeterminat?