36 Ofthe 7Y/ature, K.ovledge, Will vid. n'ocieuis n. 2. d. 195. If any man will difpute about Free-will named and not defined or ab.trii. tints. ü-, diftinguifhed, nor tell us in What fenfe he taketh ir.; or if Divines- willte- ieri arbore,.. dioufly and fiercelydifpute An fit, before they Agree or prove, .aid fit, they are fitter, robe pittied, than tobe read or heard. *If you will put the que- ftion,Whether homo lap- fix fine auxilio gratte pap refJere gravi tenta- tint? Vol Anpo,Tt efi- caciter diligere Deum fine gratte fpen ali auxilio ; &c. The Schoolmen will ordinarily Cay, No, as well as Proteftams. Vid. careros Sum. Theol. 22. cap. I. p. I I, 12, &C. f Natura humana, ejufque potentix Naturales, quara- ve's mere naturales tint, fili innatam proferant po- tentiam receptivamgrabe, imamedam potentiamaiti- vam ex fe aptam utf,mul cumdivino auxilio vitali- ter producat fupernatura- lama hem fidei,charitatir, &c. Ruiz. SECT. X. Of Natural and Moral Power as . fore-teen. 196. Nd having here anticipated the Doctrine of Free-will, I will A ( as fitett for the Readers ufe ) connex the Difference of the Natural andMoral Power of thewill or Man. , as it comethunder Prefci- enceandDecree.* Power is called Natural in all there refpehs : t . Becaufe it is in our Na- tares and we have it from our birth. a. Becaufe it is effentialto the foul. 3. Becaufe it operateth per madam merce nature, quantum in fe, and not freely. Mans foul bath three Powers called Faculties, The vital-Ac`live, The Intellec eve, and Thevolitive Power: Of which the two firff arena- tural in all thefe three refpects, in themfelves confidered : But the will is natural only in the two firft refpects ; , And fo are the othertwo fo far as they are imperate by theWill, being, as imperare, participatively Free. 197. Power is called Moral, 1. Becaufe it is it fellfMorallyGoodor Evil, as a Di foftion of the foul. 2. Becaufe it is a Power to Moral Allions. y.Becaufe it isnot called A POWER in the ftrici phyucal fente, but Morally, that is, Reputafively, called, uafPotentia.., 198. Two thingsare, called a MoralPower: 1. The Natural Powers themfelves; notfimplyas Natural, but as thus Morally qualified. z. The Moraldifpofi'tion of theNatural powers. t , 199. Morality is All feàted in the will, and from it our Power is tiro called Moral: But yet it isfecondarily in the other two faculties. zoo. As to Dr. Twiffe his Paying, that Potentia non fundatur inPaten - tia, ( Moralfis fcilicet in Naturali, and as others fay, Accidens nonfunda- Pur in accidente:) .I anfwer n.Potentia univoci fie dicta non fundatur in potentia: But this is not fuch. 2. It is falfe that accidens non fundatur in- accidente, as the instanceof Relation proveth : The term [ Accident) is indeed fo ambiguous, as proveth that thediftribution of all things firft into subflance and Accidents is not genuine and congruous, but inept. If you will call calor, Lumen, or Accidents, and call Gradus altoan Ac- cident, and then fay, that Caloric,. Luminis, Motus, non dantur divert gradui, becaufe Accidentis non eft accidens, you are not to be believed. And if you will faythat ordo is anAçcident, and that Qualitatrma, AFtia- 'num, &c. non datur ordo, it is fan.. 3. But the worft o{{, ""the error is, that the Natural Powers are called Accidents, which is a' falfhood ofvery ill tendency inmanyrefpects : They are the very formal Effence of the foul. And Purely the foul may have itsGood or Evil Difpofìtions. 2 01. There isin thevery Effence of the NaturalPower or faculty, be- tides the Os vel Flirtas agendi, a certain Natural Inclination to fouie thins, which is Infeparable from it, from which the Schoolmen fayeven of the will that it is gmedamNatura, & pondus anima. So the foul is la cloned or propenfe ( and not only Able) to Allivity as fuch, to.Intelle- Clion as Inch, to Volition as fuch; and objedtively to Truth as fuch, arid, to.ì'iatírral Goodandfelicity as. fuck. And there is an Inclination of the foul,
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