Of God and His Creatures
That the Divine Will does not take away Contingency from things*
HYPOTHETICAL necessity in the cause cannot lead to absolute necessity
in the effect. But God's will about a creature is not absolutely
necessary, but hypothetically so (Chap. LXXXIII).
Therefore the divine will is no argument of absolute necessity in
creatures. But only this absolute necessity excludes contingency: for
even a contingent fact may be extended either way into an hypothetical
necessity: thus it is necessary that Socrates moves, if he runs. It
does not therefore follow that a thing happens of necessity, if God
wills it: all that holds is the necessary truth of this conditional:
'If God wills anything, the thing will be': but the 'consequent' (as
distinguished from the 'consequence') need not be a necessary truth.*
1.84 : That the Will of God is not of things in themselves Impossible
1.86 : That Reason can be assigned for the Divine Will