How God governs rational creatures so that they always act freely exceeds Le Blanc's grasp; he confesses ignorance
But to explain point by point the nature of the divine decrees, and how God so governs and moves rational creatures that they always act in keeping with their nature, that is, freely, is, I confess, beyond my understanding.
I do not doubt that divine wisdom and power, both of them infinite, have ample means of achieving this. But I do not think it lies within my small capacity to grasp them. In all I have been able to read or think out, I have found nothing that satisfied me on every side, nothing in which the mind could rest as in something found out and understood.
So I would rather frankly confess my ignorance on this point than boast that I know what I am aware I do not know, or press on others as true things whose truth I am not fully convinced of myself.
Latin
XLVIII. Sed sigillatim exponere quae sit decretorum divinorum ratio, & qua ratione Deus creaturas rationales sic regat & moveat, ut naturae suae congruenter, id est, libere semper agant, fateor rem esse quae captum meum superat. Non dubito quin sapientiae & potentiae divinae, quae utraque infinita est, rationes abunde suppetant quibus id praestent effectum; sed illas assequi, non puto tenuitatis esse meae. Nec enim in iis quae legi aut excogitare potui quicquam inveni quod mihi omni ex parte satisfaceret, & in quo animus, tanquam re comperta & percepta, posset acquiescere. Itaque malo ingenue ignorantiam meam hac in parte fateri, quam jactare me scire, quae ipse nescire mihi conscius sum: & aliis tanquam vera obtrudere, de quorum veritate non sum ipse plene persuasus.