Physical predetermination to intrinsically evil acts seems to make God the author of sin
Above all, I cannot see how anyone can hold that God physically premoves and predetermines free causes even to acts that are intrinsically evil without its following that God is the author of sin.
Who could understand, for instance, that God, by an influence preceding every motion of the human will, laid on the first man a necessity of desiring the forbidden fruit and an appetite for eating it; and that every day, by an efficient causality in the proper sense, he predetermines people, and, to use a barbarous word, 'necessitates' them to blaspheme God and hate him; and yet that the guilt, which cannot be separated from those acts, is not to be laid back on God himself?
Latin
LVI. In primis autem percipere non possum quomodo statui possit, Deum causas liberas, etiam ad actus intrinsece malos Physice praemovere, & praedeterminare, quin inde sequatur Deum esse peccati authorem. Quis enim capiat, exempli gratia, Deum influxu quodam omnem humanae voluntatis motum antecedente, imposuisse primo homini necessitatem fructum vetitum appetendi, & appetitum comedendi: atque etiam quotidie efficientia quadam proprie dicta, homines praedeterminare, & ut sic barbare loquar necessitare ad hoc ut Deum blasphement, & eum odio habeant; & tamen culpam, quae ab istis actibus separari non potest, in Deum ipsum refundendam non esse?