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