Theological Theses · §2085 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

They grant the decrees to permit or effect acts precede foreknowledge of the absolutely future determination (Adam, Paul)

On this basis they grant that God's decrees about human acts, whether to permit them or to bring them about, come before his foreknowledge of the human will's absolutely future determination, according to our way of conceiving things in God.

On their view, for example, God decreed to permit Adam to desire the forbidden fruit, and to concur with him in that act, before he absolutely foresaw that Adam's will would determine itself to it. Likewise he decreed to anticipate Paul with his grace and to cooperate with him in the act of conversion before he absolutely foresaw that Paul's will would determine itself to it.

Latin

XXV. Hoc posito concedunt decreta Dei circa actus humanos, vel permittendos, vel efficiendos, in Deo, juxta nostrum concipiendi modum, antecedere praescientiam determinationis voluntatis humanae, quae absolute futura sit. Deus enim verbi causa, ex eorum mente, decrevit permittere ut Adamus pomum vetitum appeteret, & ad actum istum cum eo concurrere, priusquam absolute praeviderit Adami voluntatem eo se determinaturam. Et prius decrevit Paulum gratia sua praevenire, & cum eo ad conversionis actum cooperari, quam absolute praeviderit fore ut Pauli voluntas ad hoc se determinaret.

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