Controversies after Luther: Providence — three Lutheran grounds that the Reformed make God author of sin
CONTROVERSIES BORN AFTER LUTHER. On God's Providence, Predestination, and the heads annexed to them.
III. First: whether the Reformed make God the author of Sin — namely (1) from the will of εὐδοκία, that is of permissive good-pleasure, which Luther asserted so clearly that his own candid sons do not deny it; (2) from a hypothetical necessity, or necessity of futurition and of the event, flowing from infallible foreknowledge (πρόγνωσις), and also from that necessity of immutability which Luther pressed hardest, drawn from God's immutable and unsearchable good-pleasure, counsel, will, and disposition — even in the hardening of Pharaoh, the betrayal of Judas, and the like; (3) from the mode of that same Providence, least idle or ineffective (they call it Concurrence) around actions infected by sin, as actions, which again Luther himself treats as necessary, though not by a necessity of compulsion — On the Bondage of the Will, pages 67–68, and so on.
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CONTROVERSIAE POST LUTHERUM NATAE. De Providentia Dei, Praedestinatione, & Annexis Capitibus. III. I. De Deo auctore scilicet Peccati a Reformatis constituto, nempe 1. Ex voluntate εὐδοκίας seu beneplaciti permissivi, a Luthero tam luculenter asserti, non negantibus Filiis ingenuis; 2. Ex necessitate hypothetica seu futuritionis & eventûs, fluente ex infallibili προγνώσει, tùm & necessitate immutabilitatis quam ursit acerrimè Lutherus, ex immutabili ac imperescrutabili Dei beneplacito, consilio, voluntate, dispositione; etiam in Induratione Pharaonis, Proditione Judae, &c. 3. Ex modo Providentiae ejusdem, minimè otiosae aut inefficacis, (Concursum vocant) circa actiones peccato infectas, ut actiones sunt, necessarias rursum ipsi Luthero, quamvis non necessitate coactionis, Libro de Servo Arbitr. p. 67. 68. &c.