John Strang of Glasgow: God's influence is prior by nature and special, yet Thomist predetermination is not needed for every act
The Scot John Strang, himself also a professor, at the University of Glasgow, does not seem far from this view.
He holds that the action in which God and the creature concur comes from God prior by nature to its coming from the creature, and that God's influence on that action is prior by nature to the creature's influence (De voluntate et actionibus Dei circa peccatum, book not numbered in the print, chapter 11). He also denies that God concurs only by a general influence, as the sun concurs in the same way in generating a man and a horse (book 2, chapter 3); he posits a special influence of God for special effects, as these differ in kind, and that physically, not morally. Even so, he argues at length, and proves, that the premotion and predetermination of God which the school of Thomas maintains and defends is not necessary for each and every act of creatures.
Latin
XXXVI. Nec multum abesse videtur ab ista Sententia Joannes Strangius Scotus, etiam ipse & in Academia Glasguensi Professor. Quanquam enim censeat * actionem ad quam Deus & creatura simul concurrunt, prius natura esse a Deo, quam a creatura; & influxum Dei in actionem illam, esse natura priorem quam influxum creaturae; & praeterea neget † Deum concurrere tantum generali influxu; ut sol eodem modo concurrit ad generationem hominis & equi: sed influxum Dei statuat specialem ad speciales effectus, prout specie distinguuntur, non moraliter, sed Physice; multis tamen contendit & probat ad omnes & singulos creaturarum actus, necessariam non esse illam Dei praemotionem, & praedeterminationem, quam Thomae Schola tuetur & defendit. * De voluntate & actionibus Dei circa peccatum lib. cap. 11. † Lib. 2. cap. 3.