catholic double predestination

***“Therefore, as predestination includes the will to confer grace and glory; so also reprobation includes the will to permit a person to fall into sin, and to impose the punishment of damnation on account of that sin.” Aquinas Summa theologiae first part question 23 Article 3

***Denzinger 1556 Council of Valence III AD 855 Can. 6. “If anyone shall say that it is not in the power of man to make his ways evil, but that God produces the evil as well as the good works, not only by permission, but also properly and of Himself, so that the betrayal of Judas is no less His own proper work than the vocation of Paul: let him be anathema.”

***denzinger 628 Council of Valence III AD 855

Can. 3. “But also it has seemed right concerning predestination and truly it is right according to the apostolic authority which says: "Or has not the potter power over the clay, from the same lump, to make one vessel unto honor, but another unto dishonor?" (Rm 9,21) where also he immediately adds: "What if God willing to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted or prepared for destruction, so that He might show the riches of His grace on the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared unto glory" (Rm 9,22 f.): faithfully we confess the predestination of the elect to life, and the **predestination of the impious to death**; in the election, moreover, of those who are to be saved, the mercy of God precedes the merited good. In the condemnation, however, of those who are to be lost, the evil which they have deserved precedes the just judgment of God. In predestination, however, (we believe) that God has determined only those things which He Himself either in His gratuitous mercy or in His just judgment would do according to Scripture which says: "Who has done the things which are to be done" (Is 4 Is 5,11, LXX); in regard to evil men, however, we believe that God **foreknew their *malice**, because it is from them, but that **He did not predestine it [i.e. their malice]**, because it is not from Him.”

***COUNCIL OF QUIERSY AD 853

“Omnipotent God created man noble without sin with a free will, and he whom He wished to remain in the sanctity of justice, He placed in Paradise. Man using his free will badly sinned and fell, and became the “mass of perdition” of the entire human race. The just and good God, however, chose from this same mass of perdition according to His foreknowledge those whom through grace He predestined to life [Rom. 8:29 ff.; Eph. 1:11 ], and He predestined for these eternal life; the others, whom by the judgment of justice he **left in the mass of perdition** [predestination to punishment], 5 however, He knew would perish, but He **did not predestine** that they would perish, because He is just; **however**, **He predestined eternal punishment** for them. And on account of this we speak of **only one predestination** of God, which pertains either to the gift of grace or to the retribution of justice.”