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Adversa sunt contraria affirmantia, quae inter se vel••∣ti e regione perpetuo adversantur.
VVE have heard what a thing is, that is, what goes to the being, and what to the well∣being of it: and how thereby it dissenteth from o∣ther things by a diversity, or opposition: divers might consent between themselves, but they are made to di∣vert one from another. Again, for opposition it is
re & ratione dissenting either by a disparate nature, or by a contrary nature.
Contraries are either of one thing to another thing, or of one thing to nothing, the former kind also is of things that might agree, or of them that will never be at peace: now therefore we come to adversa, and these have their name of turning not aside as diversa, or as one to many as disparates, neither as relates, wch have a double aspect, a conjunct aspect being set face to face, and an opposite aspect being set back to back. But adversa are in an oppsite aspect; hence a line drawn from the point of the one aspect through the center, to the point of the other aspect will be a right line: so that here is no peace, they are overthwart neighbours continually. Sunt contraria, contraries were opposed one to one, so that a thing is not an adverse, but as it is opposed to some other thing.
That is, they are things positive, whereof the one thing is not nothing, but both are something.
Contraria quorum utrum{que} affirmat sunt affirman∣tia, id est vere entia: At haec contraria hujusmodi sunt, Ergo, adversa sunt contraria affirmantia.That is, according to their nature set one against another, by a right line.
2. Relates might be friends, though they would be foes, but adversa can never be reconciled: this dissention of adversa doth arise from a particular form; for homo is adverse to brutum, as brutum is animale irrationale, and as man is animale rationale,
and these can never be reconciled, and every thing hath his contrary, though we cannot see by reason of the forms subtilty; for contrarieties arise from the forms.
This sheweth that contraries are not opposite but when they are set one against another, as black∣ness in a shooe is not opposite to whiteness in a band.
As if he should say, if one stand here or there, the other will face him, and if the one remove, the other also will remove: so that they are two overthwart neighbours directly opposed one to another conti∣nually. Disparates were behind one another, or on the one side one of another, never before one another. Relates also might be friends, but these will alwayes be foes. In that he saith veluti e regione, he sheweth that they differ from disparates, and perpetuo sheweth that they differ from relates.
Sic albor & niger, calidum & frigidum, virtus & vitium opponuntur. Indeed we make them things, though their original be defects, for vice is sin, and we consider it as it acteth, and so it is ens.
Illud tamen arcte tenent, accurate que defendunt, vo∣luptatem esse summum bonum, &c.
Here he reasons that pleasure cannot be the good∣ness of a man, because it is the goodness of a beast; and man and beast are contraries.
Tu mihi libertas illa.
Now I see bondage shall befall me, ergo, fare well liberty.
Nunquam enim temeritas cum sapientia commisce∣tur, nec ad consilium casus addmittitur.
He makes temeritas and sapientia, adversa; consili∣um and casus contraries, but indeed they are dispe∣rates, for temeritas is a special kind of modus efficiendi, namely necessitate, aut fortuna, and consilium belongs to causa natura, aut consilio, so that they are not under one next genus.