Theological Theses · §2119 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Amyraut's conclusion: men act freely and yet inevitably accomplish what the decrees appointed

God, then, does nothing to men's faculties, whether they are carried toward good or toward evil, that conflicts with their native freedom. Yet upon God's working these or those acts, good or evil, follow infallibly, and God decreed things from eternity exactly as he carries them out in time.

From this Amyraut concludes that it fits perfectly well that men act freely and that, while acting freely, they inevitably accomplish what God's eternal decrees have appointed and designated. This is worked out more fully by that most learned man in his disputation on free choice, chapter 4.

Latin

XXIII. Cum ergo Deus circa hominum facultates, seu in bonum seu in malum ferantur, nihil operetur quod cum earum nativa libertate repugnet, & tamen ad Dei operationem infallibiliter sequantur isti vel illi actus sive boni sive mali; Deus autem non aliter res ab aeterno decreverit quam exequitur in tempore: inde colligit haec optime consistere, ut homines libere agant, & interim dum libere agunt ea peragant inevitabiliter quae aeternis Dei decretis constituta & designata sunt. Quae latius diducta videre licet apud virum illum Doctissimum disputatione de libero arbitrio capite quarto.

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