The genus of free choice: act, habit, or power; all Rome now says a power
The usual disputes about the genus of free choice are passed over here: whether it is an act, a habit, or a power, and under which of the soul's contents it should be classed.
Some older writers did teach that free choice lies not in a power or a habit but in an act; Bellarmine assigns that view to Hervaeus, the commentator on the Sentences. Others held that it is neither act nor power but a natural habit arising from intellect and will, which was the view of Cardinal Bonaventure, a teacher of great fame in the Roman School.
Even so, the whole Roman School now agrees that free choice is a power and a faculty.
Latin
II. Omittimus igitur ea quae disputare solent circa liberi Arbitrii genus, an, scilicet, sit actus, habitus, vel potentia, & ad quid eorum quae sunt in anima revocari debeat. Quanquam enim veteres nonnulli docuerint liberum arbitrium neque in potentia quadam, neque etiam in habitu aliquo consistere, sed potius in actu quodam, quam sententiam tribuit Bellarminus Herveo Theologo sententiario: alii vero existimaverint liberum arbitrium non esse actum, neque potentiam, sed habitum quendam naturalem consurgentem ex intellectu & voluntate, quam sententiam tenuit Bonaventura Cardinalis, & in Schola Romana Doctor Celeberrimus, nihilominus in eo jam tota Schola Romana consentit, liberum Arbitrium esse potentiam quandam & facultatem.