| ### QUESTION 19 ### THE WILL OF GOD ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### After considering the things belonging to the divine knowledge, we consider what belongs to the divine will. The first consideration is about the divine will itself; the second about what belongs strictly to His will; the third about what belongs to the intellect in relation to His will. About His will itself there are twelve points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether there is will in God? #### (2) Whether God wills things apart from Himself? #### (3) Whether whatever God wills, He wills necessarily? #### (4) Whether the will of God is the cause of things? #### (5) Whether any cause can be assigned to the divine will? #### (6) Whether the divine will is always fulfilled? #### (7) Whether the will of God is mutable? #### (8) Whether the will of God imposes necessity on the things willed? #### (9) Whether there is in God the will of evil? #### (10) Whether God has free will? #### (11) Whether the will of expression is distinguished in God? #### (12) Whether five expressions of will are rightly assigned to the divine will? ####  |