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I.Do future contingents fall under God's knowledge in any way?It is to be affirmed.For God knows contingent things as they are, because as they are they necessarily are, however they may be.God's knowledge does not impose absolute necessity on things, but regards them as in their causes and in the eternal decree.
II.God knows future contingents in two modes: in themselves, inasmuch as they are present to His eternity; and in their causes, inasmuch as He decreed to produce or to permit them.Whoever wants more, let him read after the scholastics in Philip Melanchthon's Loci the place on the cause of sin and on contingency.So necessity of power, fate of wisdom, and harmony of love prepare the passage to the chapter on fate.
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I. An futura contingentia aliquo pacto sub scientia Dei cadant? Affirmandum est. Deus enim cognoscit res contingentes ut sunt, quia, ut sunt, necessario sunt, quomodocunque sint. Scientia Dei non imponit rebus necessitatem absolutam, sed respicit eas ut in suis causis et in aeterno decreto. II. Duo modo Deus futura contingentia cognoscit: in seipsis, quatenus praesentia sunt aeternitati ipsius, et in suis causis, quatenus decrevit ea producere vel permittere. Plura qui volet, legat post scholasticos in locis Philippi Melanchthonis locum de causa peccati et contingentia. Sic necessitas potentiae, fatum sapientiae, harmonia amoris praeparant transitum ad caput de fato.