Theological Theses · §2061 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Common doctrine: God's eternal will is the cause of all things, and human acts too fall under his immutable decrees

It is the common, accepted teaching of theologians, drawn from the plain witness of Scripture, that God's eternal will is the cause of all things. Everything, human acts included, is subject to the unchangeable decrees of God's providence.

Nothing happens, whether by brute and lifeless causes or by men and angels, except in accordance with God's eternal preordination and determination.

Latin

THESIS I. COmmunis & recepta Theologorum doctrina est, eaque ex Scripturae manifestis documentis hausta, aeternam Dei voluntatem esse rerum omnium causam; ac immutabilibus providentiae Divinae Decretis omnia subjacere, etiam actus humanos; neque quicquam, non tantum a causis brutis sive inanimis, sed etiam ab hominibus & Angelis fieri, nisi secundum aeternam Dei praeordinationem & determinationem.

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