IV–VIII. Opposite of permission: impediment and coercion; kinds of impediment
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IV.The opposite of permission is impediment and coercion.Impediment is that by which an obstacle is set to the creatures power and will lest it sin.Coercion is that by which someone is efficaciously driven toward doing what he abhors.VI.By reason of efficiency it is either efficacious or inefficacious.VII.By reason of the object an impediment is set either to power or to will.VIII.An impediment set to power takes away the faculty; one set to will, without taking away the faculty, bends or holds it back.Permission is not a positive law of sin, nor is God the author of sin; but the suspension of impediments and the non-impeding of the act of a creature freely sinning.
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IV. Oppositum permissionis est impeditio et coactio. Impeditio est, qua potentiae et voluntati creaturae impedimentum ponitur ne peccet. Coactio est, qua quis efficaciter impellitur ad agendum a quo abhorret. VI. Efficientiae ratione est aut efficax aut inefficax. VII. Obiecti ratione ponitur impedimentum vel potentiae vel voluntati. VIII. Impedimentum potestati positum tollit facultatem; voluntati positum, absque tollenda facultate, flectit aut retinet. Permissio non est lex positiva peccati, nec Deus author peccati; sed suspensio impedimentorum et non-impeditio actus creaturae liberè peccantis.