Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

200. As to Dr. Twice his saying, that Potentia non fundatur in Potentia, (Moralis scilicet in Naturali, and as others say, Accidens non fundatur in accident:) I answer 1. Potentia univocè sic dicta non fundatur in potentia: But this is not such. 2. It is false that accidens non fundatur in accident, as the instance of Relation proveth: The term [Accident] is indeed so ambiguous, as proveth that the distribution of all things first into Substance and Accidents is not genuine and congruous, but inept. If you will call Calor, Lumen, or Motus Accidents, and call Gradus also an Accident, and then say, that Caloris, Luminis, Motus, non dantur diversi gradus, because Accidentis non est accidens, you are not to be believed. And if you will say that Ordo is an Accident, and that Qualitatum, Actionum, &c. non datur or do, it is false. 3. But the worst of the error is, that the Natural Powers are called Accidents, which is a falsehood of very ill tendency in many respects: They are the very formal Essence of the soul. And surely the soul may have its Good or Evil Dispositions.

200. As to Dr. Twisse his saying, that Potentia non fundatur in Potentia, (Moralis scilicet in Naturali, and as others say, Accidens non fundatur in accidente:) I answer 1. Potentia univocè sic dicta non fundatur in potentia: But this is not such. 2. It is false that accidens non fundatur in accidente, as the instance of Relation proveth: The term [Accident] is indeed so ambiguous, as proveth that the distribution of all things first into Substance and Accidents is not genuine and congruous, but inept. If you will call Calor, Lumen, or Motus Accidents, and call Gradus also an Accident, and then say, that Caloris, Luminis, Motus, non dantur diversi gradus, because Accidentis non est accidens, you are not to be believed. And if you will say that Ordo is an Accident, and that Qualitatum, Actionum, &c. non datur or do, it is false. 3. But the worst of the error is, that the Natural Powers are called Accidents, which is a falshood of very ill tendency in many respects: They are the very formal Essence of the soul. And surely the soul may have its Good or Evil Dispositions.

201. There is in the very Essence of the Natural Power or faculty, besides the Vis vel Virts agendi, a certain Natural Inclination to some things, which is Inseparable from it, from which the Schoolmen say even of the Will that it is quaedam Natura, & pondus animae. So the soul is Inclined or propense (and not only Able) to Activity as such, to Intellection as such, to Volition as such; and objectively to Truth as such, and to Natural Good and felicity as such. And there is an Inclination of the