...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by Absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown.40 Yet does not certainty of an outcome imply necessity, thereby foreclosing...

...claims that "I made him just and right, / Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall" (3: 98-99): They trespass, Authors to themselves in all Both what they judge and what they choose; for so I form'd them free and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves: (3:122-25) "Will and...

...causality in Paradise Lost: As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown." In Scripture, Milton claims in De Doctrina, the term predestination is used to refer not to reprobation...

...over-rul'd Thir will, disposed by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without the least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutably...

...their making, or their fate, As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate,0 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all Both what...

...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree 1 1 5 Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably...

...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge: they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew. Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So Milton's God defensively observes in the heavenly colloquy of Paradise...

...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree us Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably...

...foreknows that man will fail in Eden, His foreknowledge of these events does not cause them to occur: they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If...influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.27 In the remaining books of Paradise Lost Milton introduces his essential proof of the...

...none. So when Milton's God says As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their...fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. (PL 3.114-19) Milton is not having God rehearse what any good Protestant ought to know. He is making...