Johannes Capreolus, Defensiones theologiae divi Thomae Aquinatis, ed. Paban–Pègues, Tours 1900, vol. 2, Dist. XVII q.1, third conclusion
The third conclusion is that sanctifying grace is really distinguished from charity, and from every virtue.
The holy Doctor proves this conclusion at De veritate q. 27 a. 2, thus: «For since different natures have different ends, three things are required beforehand for reaching any end in natural things: namely a nature proportioned to that end; an inclination towards that end, which is the appetite for the natural end; and motion towards the end. […]
But there is an end for which man is prepared by God that exceeds the proportion of human nature — namely eternal life, which consists in the vision of God through his essence. Hence something must also be given to man not only by which he may work towards the end, or by which his appetite may be inclined to that end, but also by which the nature of man itself may be raised to a certain dignity, according to which such an end is fitting for him; and for this, grace is given. But for inclining the affection towards this end, charity is given. And for carrying out the works by which the said end is acquired, the other virtues are given.
And therefore, just as in natural things the nature itself is one thing and the inclination of the nature, or its motion or operation, another, so too in the order of grace, grace is one thing and charity and the remaining virtues another. And that this comparison is rightly taken is clear from Dionysius in chapter 2 of the Celestial Hierarchy, where he says that no one can have a spiritual operation unless he first receive spiritual being — just as neither can he have the operation of some nature unless he first have being in that nature.» — Thus he.
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Johannes Capreolus, Defensiones theologiae divi Thomae Aquinatis, ed. Paban–Pègues, Tours 1900, vol. 2, Dist. XVII q.1, third conclusion · pd
The created answer, worked out into a division of labour: grace raises the nature to a dignity that makes the end fitting, charity inclines the affection to it, the other virtues carry out the works. Three gifts where the Master had one Giver. The elision […] is the long excursus on ends in natural things, kept out because the analogy is Thomas's and the division is the part that answers this crux. Latin restored from the 1900 print's OCR: repair of scanning damage, not expansion of abbreviation.