86 Of the J(atiire, Çnonledge, Will Ex eavelo quid Deus ton - cureat nabijcum ad alum peccati, prouefacultas libe, ri arbitrii poftulat, five prias, five pofterius, five (ima, non fequitur malata am Dea effe tribuendam> cum ilia folum ex medá operandi creatura [equator.. Vafquez in i Tho.q. 23. d.99.cap.4. 541. No Act meetly as an Alf in gesture is forbidden of God. For the foul is anActive nature, and can no more craie all ai ion, than to be : though it can forbear aparticular aft as to this objet / and at this time. AndGod is the Caufe of Acis as Each. 54z. I have fhewedbefore that as Alien it felf is no fribflance., but themode or motion of a fubilance, fo to choofe this objed. rather than that, bath no more ofAction in it thanto have chofen the other, or than the general nature of aciion when exiftent hath : So that this Moral fpecifi- cationaddeth not to the natural generical entity, 543. Ít is therefore I. AEting, 2. Not ailing, 3. Moral difpofition; which are Commanded andForbidden by God : And not any one only : and there not in themfelves, but about the Materials commanded or for- bidden Objectively, in the Law. To AFP on a forbidden objedt Not to Act on an object when commanded, and to be vicioafly difpofed to ei- ther, is a fin. 5 44. You may fee then, that fin is a Connotativenotion, yea, and a Relativenotion It connoteth a Ruler, a Law, an End; a Subject, and is thus variouflyRelated. 545. As sabjeelion is the Root of Obedience, and all obedience -Vira tùally, beingAConfent to obey, and Love is. the Root of benefits; fo to forfake God fimply as our Redor or our End, or' our Owner, is Atheifm practical, and all fin in one : But to violate only .a particular preceptde mediis, is but a particular fin. 546. God is the Caufe of the Law which commandeth -and forbiddeth; and God is the Caufe ofNature, and Objects, and //dim as AÉPion : That therefore which he bathmade mans part is to Love Godand Flolinefs, and not to over-love the creature, nor to love it asour End or in his (lead : and to do all that he commandeth, and not to dd the particular actsaboue fuch particular objects as he forbiddeth. 547 The remote fubjec or relating then of fin,is the perforafinning; But the neareft is the AFP, Omifion or dir,ofition ; The fundamentum or ratio referendi is the faid Als,OmifÌions or difpofitions, as filch or fach, about fach or fach objects, commanded or forbiddden; which is a Relati- on ; And the form of fin is the Moral Relation of Difobedience,, or Dif- conformity to the Law. So that if youmuff needs have it inLogical no- tions, sin is aMoralRelation, re[ulting from a Phyfical relation of .fzoi- ens, Omiflions or dafpoRions. of Gods'fubjeEts, which are modifiedcontrary, to his Law. 548. It is a Moral Relation as it is Difobedience, found in a Moral agent againfl,a Law andRector as filch. It is a Phyfical Relation as the Act, b c. is prisas naturá quidnaturale, about an object that is quid na- turale. . Its fundamentrm (of both relations : And one Relationmay be founded in another) is theMode of the Ad, Omiffion ordifpofition, as tm an undue object, be. as it is forbiddenby the Law. Of the fubjetts and relatam I havefpóken before. 549 So that the form of fin being Relative can have no Caufe'but that which caufeth its fundamentum and cannot pof iibly but refúltwhen that is laid. 550. It were an injury to God to feign him to make filch a Law as Ihould fay, [Though thou hate me, fee thatthat hatred be not Relatedfor- mally as a breach of myLan,,] or [I forbid theenot to commit Adulte- ry, but only forbidthat thy Adultery be quid prohibitum or a fish] For ifGod forbid "not the act, it cannot be a fin : and if he forbid it, it muff needs be fin; And Co of°Millions. I. They, ,
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