What Le Blanc holds certain: all things governed by providence; good from God, guilt the creature's; evil only as God permits
Someone will say: 'Why do you pick at other men's opinions? If you have something better, bring it out, or else take orders.' I answer that in this matter some things are certain and beyond doubt for me, while others I do not know.
It is clear from Scripture, and reason itself agrees, that all things are governed by God's providence and are so subject to the divine decrees that nothing happens without God's knowledge or against his will. Whatever is done well is to be credited to him as the author of all good things, while the guilt of all evils lies with the creature alone.
Yet nothing evil happens except so far as God, by a settled plan, allows it and does not hinder it. And God so governs men's evil actions, and uses them in such a way, that he draws many good things from them and directs them to various excellent ends.
Latin
XLV. At inquiet aliquis quid alienas sententias carpis? Si melius quid habes accerse, vel imperium fer. Respondeo, quaedam in hoc negotio apud me certa esse atque indubitata, alia vero a me ignorari. Ex scriptura clarum est, & ratio quoque ipsa astipulatur omnia Dei providentia regi, & ita subesse decretis divinis, ut nihil Deo inscio sive invito fiat. Quicquid bene fit, ad illum ut bonorum omnium authorem referendum esse; sed malorum omnium culpam penes creaturam solam residere. Nihil tamen mali contingere, nisi quantum Deus certo consilio sinit & non impedit; Deumque sic moderari malas hominum actiones, illisque ea ratione uti, ut inde multa bona eliciat, illasque ad varios & optimos fines dirigat.