Theological Theses · §1945 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

De la Place reconciles that dependence with freedom as immunity from a threefold necessity

A little further on he reconciles this dependence of the will on the first cause with the will's freedom. He writes:

'However our will may depend on God, and whatever God may work in it, it always keeps the freedom that we said lies in exemption from a threefold necessity: of coercion, of determination by matter, and of determination by the senses.'

Latin

LIII. Istam vero voluntatis a prima causa dependentiam, sic, paucis interjectis, cum ejusdem voluntatis libertate conciliat. Quomodocunque autem Voluntas nostra pendeat a Deo, ac quicquid in ea Deus operetur, constat semper illi libertas ea quam in immunitate a triplici necessitate, coactionis, determinationis a materia, & determinationis a sensu positam esse diximus.

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