God stirs and applies the secondary cause; with the premotion given, it cannot fail to act in the composite sense
They hold, therefore, that God rouses and applies the secondary cause to act, and that before the creature works, in the order of reason and nature, God effectively moves it in each of its actions. It is God who acts and brings it about that the creature acts and does whatever it does.
Without this premotion from God the creature can do nothing at all; and once the premotion is given, it is impossible, in the composite sense, for the secondary cause not to do and make what the first cause premoves it to.
Latin
XII. Igitur illi volunt Deum ciere atque applicare causam secundam ad agendum, & ratione ac natura prius quam creatura operetur, illam a Deo moveri efficaciter in singulis ejus actionibus; Deumque esse qui agit & facit ut creatura agat & faciat quicquid illa facit & agit: ita ut sine hac Dei praemotione nihil omnino possit agere creatura, & data hac praemotione impossibile sit in sensu composito, causam secundam non illud agere & facere, ad quod a prima causa praemovetur.