Book de Mente bum. Ch. 7. who denies fubftances fevered from matter to be pro-

perly called Entelecheias : and he faies that only in one place in Ariftotle,viz. 2.Me- tapbyf. 1.49. thefupream or firft intelligence is termed Entelecheta, and that nor without Reafon. The fame word is alfo attributed to accidents or accidental Forms; feeingalfo becanfe of che things chemfelves they are fo called, and they fl that poffibilicy and Aptitude which che things had toreceive accidents. Yea, And as it appears out of Ariffotle in his 2 de Amma, Ch.1. 4.2. Entelecheia is not only attributed to forms, whether fubftancial or accidental, whence the operations pro-
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But for the word Entelecbeia, Ariftotle often ufes the word Energeia, which figs Energeia nifies not only operation, as Zabarel conceives, who in his Book de mente bumana ena Ch, 7. teaches that Energeia fignifies only operation, and formes conjoyned with Ds the macter, whofe eflence differs from operationas an accident, he denies tobe differ from called Energies 5 and he faies, among fubftantial Forms; icis only rightly accribu- Entele- red, tochote that are free from matter. Howbeic this word is actributed as Wel to cheia. Forms joyned with matter, astochofe withourit.. For Argftorle in his 9. Metaph.
Ch. 6. limply oppofes tobe in energy, unto being in porentiality or Aptitude, and in the fame place he cals che fubftantial Form joynedto the matter Energeia : and, up and down inthe fame Book, he cals the fubitancial Formis of things, ‘Energeiar, as may befeen, cheifly in the 8. Chap. which he alfo does in 8. ‘Metapb. c. 2. Andin the 4. B. ch.2. Energeis fignifies not only to operate, but reallyto be. Alfo, that Energeia is uled to fignifie the accidental ‘Form, appears ftom che 3. of bis Phyficks, Cb. 2.T.15,and Cb 3. T.18. but more evidently trom the 2o. ‘Metaph. Cb.8. where he thus writes : Seeing every thing is divided into. A& and Aptitude, I call the A& of that which veas before only in power, Energeia, Motion. |
To thefe Greek words, the Latin word Aétus does anfwer, which does noc, in AdGus or this place, fignifie Aéion only 3 Butchac, from mbich every thing is faid to be what it eye aka %. For as Scaliger faies in his 359. Exercitation Set. 2. we muft borrow ordinary words to lignifie abftrufe matters: which feem harfh to Novices,-and ridiculousto curious Ciceronians. Now according to Scaliger in the fame place, .An A&t is that being, which wants nothing to make it be what it is, but bas allits caufes.
Now here in the definition of Motion Entelechea is taken, neither for the perfect Vat En- form, nor for the operation alone; but for a certain imperfett At. Fo there is a ee twofold 4, one perfeit, which when it comes, it expels al Aptitude or pocenti- or te ality, and leaves none ofit behind: another imperfett, with which there alwaies An ath is remains fomwhat of poflibility ; which when it is taken away, the Act is alfo taken twofold. away; andfuch an A@tis Motion. For feeing that is called moveable, which may be moved: motionis the fulfiling and perfecting of thar poflibilicy, in regard of which a thing is called moveable, and makes that ic hath not only a poffibilicy of being moved, buc chat it is now really moved, indeed andintruch. Howbeic this: Entelecheia does not takeaway al poflibilicy, but only fo perfeéts the Body move~ able, chat ic retaines yet the poflibilicy of being more moved, uncil at length it come. to the utmoft term of motion, to which while it is moved, ic mut needs havyethe power of motion.- For truly the ching moveable, whileic is in the term from which, isnot yet moved; but while it is inthe term to which, it is moved no longer; but nowit ismoved, and ceafes from mbtion. Buc then it is truly faidto be mo-= ved, when ic is now in the Aét, 1n which before, whén ic was in the term from: which, it.wasnor, but only hada poflibilicy of attaining the fame 3 and when ic yet tends co chat further arf which in ref{peé& of the rerm from which, ichach not, but mayattain. Forificthad already the laftcerm, it would be no longer. moved thereunto. - For which caule it is alfo faidin the definition of Motion: that Motion is the A& of that which x in poffebility.. For whatfoever is moved, as may appear by the premifes, is part in at and partly in poflibiliry.. In a&, in tefpect-of the Form and of thar term which by motion it.hach already gained, and actually pof- elles ; in poflibilicy, in refpect of chat which it hath not yet obtained; ‘and for the fake whereof it is ftill moved. For examples fake: Water whichis in heating, is faidto be moved, that is to fay altered, . For ic hath already fome ‘degrees of heat, and has the poflibility ofgaining yet more, and: does likewife gain them by gtowing warmer : and when it has attained all the degrees, it is then termed hot waters buc is not faid any longer to grow hot, or to be.altered and moved.
otion is there fore neither a pure act, nora pure poflibility, But acertain mid-
) Motion is dle and imperfett aif. And in every-motion are found thef
e three things > Some of an imper= the Form, which is by motion already attained; a permer of receiving chat form fed ad2,
more perfectly and ina greater meafure 3 al Plux and Progrefs. or Tendenay tothe faidForm. Finally Ariftotle adds in che definitien, in as much as it is in poffebility, to fignifie that motion is not made in re{pect of chat Form and cerm, which the moveable thing hath already attained... For.a thing is:no longer moved forthe
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Chap. 9. cis eafieto gather wherein the Effence and formality of Motion does confift. Two For fecing there are in every mocion two things, one che formit felf flowing 5 the shings i other, the flux of the form: Motion formally, is neither fimply a form, nor a form Motiet. owing, but a continual acquificion of Form, and the flux thereof, parcly already acquired and partly tobe acquired. For to be moved, is not to have rhe form 5 bur, to be moved, is to cerndcothe form. To na- . Moreover;: tovall Phyfical.or Natural motion, rhefe things are required. tural mo- 1, A Mover: For every thing whichis moved, is moved by fome other thing. tion ere Boric is impoflible chat the fame thing inrefpect of the fame form, fhould be in required: A & andin Poffibiliry : Buc chat which moves, or introduces any form, does actually A Mes poflefs the fame ; that which is moved has only a power cto receive theform., And cherefore it is noc the fame ching which moves and is moved. Howbeit touching this Axiome we. muft obferve,chat it is only to be underftood of material tbines and natural bedies compleat, and of the motion of the wbol compound; and that the sneent of Ariftotle nthe 7. Phyfick, cap. 1. when he delivered this axiome was to deduce natural motion to one firft Principle, andthereby co prove that there was one firft mover, by which as by a firft Principle, all bodies are moved : otherwife, unlefs this axiome be warily underftood and explained, many difficulties arife, feeing not only Animals are moved by an internal force, but alfo che Elements by an in- ward principle ate carriedto their place, where not only the body of the Elemenc is moved by ics form to its place, but alfo the form icfelftends to its place. Seeal- fo beneath Book 2. ch. 3. 2 II. Amovable or thing moved, and hence every thing that naturally moves it A Move- felf is dividedincro'a part moving,and a part moved. Now that which moves mutt ble. needs be with that which ismoved, orcthat which primarily does move any thing, without the Intervention. of any intermediate agent, ought co couch chat thing which ic moves, and to bevery neer untorhe fame. For we cannot fo much as imagine, how any thing can fuffer from-that, by which ir isnot touched, or how any thing can act upon that which ic does notitouch. For fince operation follows the Effence of athing : where the thingis noc, there its operation cannot be. For though the fitft mover be abfent from the thing moved in ref{pect of its fubftance, yevis it joyned therwith,by che Virtue whichie fends forth. And thus the next mover and. the thing moved, are alwaies together, and every attion ts caufed by touching. Now motion is inthe thing moved... For the Aétisin tha¢ thing, whofe act itis. Yetis not the aétion of the mover different from the a of the ching moved, bur there js one att of the Agent andthe Patient, : -For itis one and the fame thing which the The An ONES produces by acting, and which is produced in the Patient by fuffering. And Aion of the. Athion of the mover and the paffion of the moved are one only motion, not really di- the mover {Unc onefromanother; bur only refpethively, viz. in'as much as the fameAct, does andthe proceed from the mover as from its Principle, and is received by the Moved, asthe Paffion of Batient : which is wel exprelt by Ariftorle in the >. Pbyf- ch. 3. t- 22. For to be the ibe moved Astion/of this inthat, and of that from this, differs refpettively. So that che fame moti- are but on€ on asic procceeds fromche Agent, isan adtion, asitis received by the Patient, a
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