Assertion: acquired virtue | /r/CreatedBy | acts of a created vital power
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text: as to their effective principle, being immediately caused by God, whilst the acquired virtues are caused by acts of a created vital power;
text: as to their effective principle, being immediately caused by God, whilst the acquired virtues are caused by acts of a created vital power;
text: These infused virtues differ from the acquired virtues (I) as to their effective principle, being immediately caused by God, whilst the acquired virtues are caused by acts of a created vital power; (2) by reason of their radical principle, for the infused virtues flow from sanctifying grace as their source, whereas the acquired virtues are not essentially connected with grace; (3) by reason of the acts they elicit, those of the infused virtues being intrinsically supernatural, those of the acquired not exceeding the capacity of human nature; (4) whilst one mortal sin destroys the infused virtues, with the acquired virtues acts of mortal sin are not necessarily incompatible, as contrary acts are not directly opposed to the corresponding contrary habit.