The later Thomists: God's knowledge is the cause of things, yet it foreknows the free mode of acting (Alvarez)
Others, however, try to reconcile God's foreknowledge with human freedom in another way. They hold false the proposition 'Things are known by God because they are future', and true the proposition 'Something is future because God foreknows that it will be'. On their view God's knowledge is the cause of things.
Yet they do not think this harms human freedom. From eternity God foreknows not only that people will do this or that, but also the manner in which they will act, namely freely and contingently.
So, given God's foreknowledge, it follows necessarily, to take an example, that Peter will speak. Indeed God's knowledge is, in its own way, the cause of Peter's speaking. But it follows that he will speak in a particular manner: contingently and freely. Hence, they say, God's foreknowledge implies the actual exercise of human freedom rather than destroying it. Such foreknowledge does not remove from Peter's will, as he speaks, the free power by which he could refrain from speaking if he wished; rather it places that very power in his will.
This is the teaching of those called the later Thomists, as can be seen in Didacus Alvarez, in the summary of his work on the aids of divine grace, book 1, chapter 11.
Latin
XXVII. Alii tamen aliter conciliare nituntur Dei praescientiam cum libertate hominis. Falsam enim esse putant hanc propositionem, Quia res futurae sunt, ideo cognoscuntur a Deo: hanc autem esse veram, Quia Deus praescit aliquid esse futurum, ideo futurum est. Nam juxta ipsos scientia Dei est causa rerum. Neque tamen existimant hoc praejudicare hominum libertati. Quia Deus ab aeterno non solum praescit homines hoc aut illud acturos esse, sed etiam praescit modum quo acturi sunt, nempe libere atque contingenter. Ac proinde, posita Dei praescientia, necessario quidem sequitur verbi causa, quod Petrus loquuturus sit, imo ista Dei scientia causa est, suo modo, quod Petrus sic loquuturus; Sed quod locuturus sit, non quovis modo, verum contingenter & libere. Unde inquiunt, ex praescientia Dei potius infertur actuale exercitium libertatis humanae, quam destruatur. Nam talis praescientia non aufert a voluntate Petri loquentis liberam facultatem qua possit non loqui, si velit: imo potius in ea facultatem ejusmodi ponit. Quae est Doctrina eorum qui dicuntur Thomistae recentiores ut apud Didacum Alvarez videre est in summa Operis de Auxiliis gratiae Divinae lib. 1. cap. 11.