Lorenzo de' Medici, Seven Philosophical Questions in Verse

explains the connected ones:

O Lorenzo, in this poem you have gathered together seven questions, most worthy of being known, with a certain divine twig (as they say) of supreme and friendly wisdom. First, you ask whether all things that proceed do so from the highest God. Then, if sin itself can rightly be said to be nothing. Third, whether sin can in any way be permitted to exist by the best God. After this, you inquire most acutely whether man is able, without divine gratia grace, to sow such works by which he might merit to gather the fruits of eternal life. Then you add the skillful question of whether the most liberal God wishes all men to be participants in this grace, absolutely or with a condition. Finally, with a most sagacious mind, you ask again what that disposition or inclination is, or (as some say) the conversion that is said to be required in him who is about to receive grace. Finally, you investigate with marvelous genius whether of these grace precedes the disposition in man, or the disposition precedes grace. For grace (as they say) is not given except to those who are disposed, yet that disposition (as they claim) does not happen without grace, or else one would have to go around in a certain circle without end, and it is necessary that one of these things precede the other:

A large red calligraphic initial Q has a long decorative tail extending into the margin and under the first line of the paragraph.

O weightiest Lorenzo, the mere appearance of the proposed questions alone (if I may say so) deters me. For a little