Chapter 30: On the three great influxes of God's governance into created things
CHAPTER THIRTY. On the three great influxes of God's governance into created things.
Thus far concerning God's governance as to its parts and modes: now, THIRDLY, we treat of its three great influxes, which are as it were the instruments of a most exalted unity, by which He communicates His power, wisdom, and love, and modifies them in things.
II. They are necessity, fate, and harmony. We have seen the principle and governor of all things, whom the nations call God: it remains to speak of His great influences — namely necessity, fate, and harmony — which depend upon His power, wisdom, and love, and through which we see the generations, mutations, essences, operations, and relations of all things brought to completion.
Latin
CAPUT TRIGESIMUM, De gubernationis Dei, tribus magnis in res creatas influxibus. Hactenus de gubernatione Dei quantum ad partes et modos: nunc TERTIO agemus de tribus illius magnis influxibus, qui sunt quasi instrumenta unitatis supereminentissimae, quibus vim, sapientiam et amorem suum communicat, et in rebus modificat. II. Sunt autem necessitas, fatum et harmonia. Omnium rerum principium ac gubernatorem, quem Deum nationes appellant, vidimus: nunc de influentiis illius magnis dicendum restat, de necessitate videlicet, fato et harmonia, quae ab illius potentia, sapientia et amore dependent, per quas videmus generationes, mutationes, essentias, operationes et relationes cunctarum rerum absolvi.