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Jerome Zanchi

1 quotation · Works cited: The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination (tr. Augustus Toplady)

Decrees & Providence

Every action, as such, is undoubtedly good, it being an actual exertion of those operative powers given us by God for that very end; God therefore may be the Author of all actions (as He undoubtedly is), and yet not be the Author of evil. … Suppose a boy, who knows not how to write, has his hand guided by his master and nevertheless makes false letters, quite unlike the copy set him, though his preceptor, who guides his hand, is the cause of his writing at all, yet his own ignorance and unskilfulness are the cause of his writing so badly. Just so, God is the supreme Author of our action, abstractedly taken, but our own vitiosity is the cause of our acting amiss.

— Jerome Zanchi, The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination (tr. Augustus Toplady), on the omnipotence of God