VIII-X: absolute and ordained power; nature threefold; miracles
VIII. The distinction is that by which Gods power is absolute or ordained. Absolute is so called because it is not limited by the universal law of nature, as if beside and above that God could not do something; and so it is said in comparison with the ordained, by which He acts precisely according to the common law and order of His decrees.
IX. Absolute power is that by which God can do whatever He wills and can will, beside the order of nature placed by Himself through providence, and the universal laws, and the particular judgment drawn from them. It is also called extraordinary, by which God works miracles beside, above, and, if you speak with the Greeks, against the universal and common laws of nature placed by Himself. Nature is said in three ways according to Augustine: 1. the accustomed course of nature; 2. active and passive force; 3. nature naturing, namely God. Therefore some things are above nature, some against nature, some beside nature. God therefore does against nature in the first sense in all miracles; but against nature in the second and third senses He never does anything. Thus God does nothing against nature, but above and beside it.
X. Ordained is that by which God works precisely according to the order constituted by His providence, conformably to universal laws and particular judgments drawn from them. It is also called ordinary; by this God still either conserves or governs or destroys all things created by Himself; by this He commonly works all things in all, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Latin
VIII. Distinctio est, qua potentia Dei est absoluta aut ordinata. Absoluta dicitur quia non est limitata universali lege naturae, quasi praeter et supra illam Deus non possit aliquid agere; et sic dicitur in comparatione ad ordinatam, qua praecise agit juxta communem legem et ordinem decretorum suorum. IX. Absoluta potentia est, qua Deus agere potest quicquid vult et velle potest, praeter ordinem naturae per providentiam a se positum, legesque universales, judiciumque particulare inde deductum. Dicitur etiam extraordinaria, qua miracula Deus edit praeter, supra, et, si cum Graecis loquaris, contra naturae leges universales et communes a se positas. Natura dicitur tripliciter secundum Augustinum: 1. solitus naturae cursus; 2. vis activa et passiva; 3. natura naturans, scilicet Deus. Quapropter quaedam sunt supra naturam, quaedam contra naturam, quaedam praeter naturam. Deus igitur facit contra naturam primo modo dictam in omnibus miraculis; sed contra naturam secundo et tertio modo dictam nunquam aliquid facit. Sic ergo Deus nihil facit contra naturam, sed supra et praeter eam. X. Ordinata est, a qua Deus secundum ordinem per providentiam suam constitutum praecise, legibus universalibus et particularibus judiciis inde deductis conformiter operatur. Dicitur quoque ordinaria; hac Deus omnia a se creata etiamnum aut conservat aut moderatur aut destruit; hac communiter efficit omnia in omnibus, pro beneplacito voluntatis suae.