# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S36
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

36 Theological Axioms.

6. Periculum non est, si origo animae lateat, modo redemtio clareat.

There is no danger in our not knowing how our soul arises, so long as
its redemption is made known to us.

7. Deus non est auctor vel causa peccati.

God is neither the author nor the cause of sin.

8. Nunquam Deus peccatum permitteret, nisi bonum ex ista permis-
sione elicere sciret.

God would never permit a sin, if he did not know how to draw good out
of that permission.

9. Deus peccata peccatis punit.

God punishes sins with sins.

VIII. Of Predestination.

1. Nihil est in Dei opere, quod non fuerit in decreto, et nihil fuit in
decreto, quod non sequitur in opere.

God does nothing that he had not resolved from eternity, and nothing
has God resolved from eternity that he would not do.

2. Quae Deus in tempore agit, sunt manifestatio eorum, quae ab
aeterno agere decrevit.

What God does in time is a manifestation of what he resolved from
eternity to do.

3. Praedestinatio multis est causa surgendi, nemini labendi.

Predestination is, for many, a cause of rising, but for no one a cause
of falling.

4. Sobria de praedestinatione meditatio incipit a vulneribus Christi.

A sober meditation on predestination begins at the wounds of Christ.

5. Viscera conspicimus Patris per vulnera Nati.

Through the wounds of the Son we look into the heart of the Father.

6. In Deo non sunt contrariae voluntates.

In God there is not a twofold, contrary will.

7. Deus non vult aliud voluntate signi, aliud voluntate beneplaciti.

God does not will one thing by his revealed will and another thing by
the will of his good pleasure.

8. Non deserit Deus hominem, nisi prius ab homine deseratur.

God forsakes no man unless he is first forsaken by that man.

9. Deus indurat, cum non emollit; excoecat, cum non illuminat.

God hardens when he does not soften; he blinds when he does not
enlighten.

10. Praedestinatio non est praevisorum operum meritum, sed Dei
eligentis gratuitum donum.

Predestination is not a merit of works foreseen by God, but the free
gift of grace of the God who elects.