God's 'sorrow' likewise puts the consequent for the antecedent
In the same way God is said to be grieved by human sins, not because he feels in himself any emotion like our sadness. It is simply a way of saying that God strongly disapproves of human sins and is displeased by them, and that they are such as would bring him sorrow if he were like us and subject to the same passions.
Here the consequent is put for the antecedent: sorrow stands for what is apt to produce sorrow in a subject capable of it.
Latin
XIV. Eodem modo Deus propter hominum peccata contristari dicitur, non quod in se sentiat affectum aliquem nostrae tristitiae similem; sed simpliciter ad significandum hominum peccata Deo multum improbari atque displicere, & talia esse quae Deo tristitiam afferrent, si nostri similis esset, atque ὁμοιοπαθής: ita ut hic consequens pro antecedente sumatur, tristitia, scilicet, pro eo quod in subjecto capaci tristitiam gignere aptum est.