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,…

202. This adventitious Disposition, is found in the soul in various Degrees: 1. When it is in such a Degree only, as that immediately and properly without any other power added, the will may be said to be Able to Act thus or thus, then it is called a Moral Power: But when it is in such a degree, as that we are Disposed to Act promptly and easily, it is called a Habit.

203. He therefore that is so far disposed to any Good act, and whose Indisposition, or disposition to the contrary, is but such, as that in his present state, without any more help than ^*he hath, he can move his own will to the said act, and the difficulty is not so great, but that such Power sometime doth overcome it, is said to have a Moral Power. But he that wanteth not Natural force or power, but only a right Disposition of his Will, and so far wanteth it, as that none in his case do ever change their own acts to good, without more help and power than he hath, is said to be Morally unable or impotent: and not only to want the Habit.

1. *Yet the Jesuits themselves (as Ruiz ubi sup.) are not so much for the necessity of predisposition, but that they confess that Grace oft taketh occasion of things natural, or indifferent, yea, of heinous sins themselves. And that the beginning of Justification (Sanctification) is not from the strength or endeavours of nature, but from Grace he largely proveth in the whole disp. 17, 18. as Vasquez and Suarez and other Jesuits also do.

204. Whether the Natural Powers be properly called A Power to Believe, Repent, Love God, &c. without the Moral Power or right disposition? though it be a question of some use among the Contenders about these matters, yet it is chiefly de nomine, and therefore of the less moment. This is to be granted of all de re,