Against Vorstius; five scholastic objections deferred
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Conrad Vorstius in his Notes on Disputation III On God seems somehow to deny this attribute of God, writing that the fifth species of change can have a place in God insofar as He exercises certain immanent actions according to free will.
But of old certain doubts were objected to the orthodox consensus by the scholastics: first, that God began to act; second, that yesterday He knew the sun would rise today; third, that His liberty would be taken away if He could not change His will; fourth, that He was made man; fifth, that God was changed because He suffered and died.Each of these arguments has its proper seat below.Meanwhile, since it is certain that God is entirely immutable and immobile, a few rules are here to be observed, useful for solving contrary arguments.
Latin
CONRADUS VORSTIUS Notis ad disp. III. de DEO hoc attributum Dei aliquo modo inficias ire videtur, scribens quintam speciem mutationis eatenus in Deo locum habere posse, quatenus ipse actiones quasdam immanentes exercet juxta liberam voluntatem. Sed antiquitus dubia quaedam orthodoxo consensui objecta fuerunt a scholasticis: 1. quod Deus inceperit agere; 2. quod heri sciverit solem hodie oriturum; 3. quod tolleretur libertas ejus si non posset mutare voluntatem; 4. quod factus sit homo; 5. quod Deus sit mutatus quia passus et mortuus. SINGULA haec argumenta infra habent propriam sedem. Interim cum certum sit Deum esse penitus immutabilem et immobilem, paucae hic observandae sunt regulae ad contrariorum argumentorum solutionem utiles.