On their principles too, this knowledge is in God prior in reason to any decree
It is just as clear, on the principles of those same teachers, that the knowledge by which God knows what any possible creature would do in this or that state of things, if he willed to supply it with the concurrence it needs to act, exists in God prior in the order of reason to any decree of his about things.
Before we conceive of God decreeing anything, it is true that if God willed to move and predetermine some creature to act by his concurrence, it would certainly do what it was moved and determined to do. The truth of this proposition does not depend on some earlier decree of God fixing the connection between that possible decree and the event that would follow from it.
Latin
LI. Nec minus evidens est, juxta eorundem Doctorum principia, scientiam illam qua Deus cognoscit quid creatura quaelibet possibilis actura esset in hoc aut illo rerum statu, si Deus illi concursum ad agendum necessarium subministrare vellet, in Deo locum habere ratione priusquam de rebus quicquam decreverit. Etenim priusquam concipiamus Deum aliquid decernere, verum est, quod si Deus creaturam aliquam vellet concursu suo ad agendum movere & praedeterminare, ageret proculdubio id ad quod moveretur & determinaretur. Nec veritas hujus propositionis ab aliquo Dei decreto antecedente pendet, quo decreta sit connexio possibilis illius decreti cum eventu qui ex illo sequeretur.