Arts analogy: nested ends toward the commonwealth; necessity, order, harmony referred to power, wisdom, love
Yet because all things are bound together by place, coexistence, and compact, we see some to be ends of others — as the end of navigation is merchandise, of shipbuilding navigation, of hewing timber shipbuilding, of cutting hewing — and yet these arts do not communicate among themselves. For the cutter of timber does not cut so that it may be hewn, but that by such labor he may seek his living. He who hews does not understand the building; that is understood by the one who hired him, while he himself looks to his wage. He who builds a ship for navigation, insofar as he is hired by another, does not look to that further end but has his own; the sailor does not ask whether the wares are good or useless, but that he may finish his voyage; of the merchandise the merchant cares, but of trade and of all the other arts together the commonwealth cares, because its happiness consists in their communication.
Hence Aristotle too thinks the good of the universe is order; but we mean that for the sake of which order is, speaking of the intrinsic good. Of the extrinsic it is plain that it is God Himself. And because whatever happens necessarily is so ordered that it happens for the better — as necessity is referred to power, order to wisdom, and the harmony of the better to love — all things happen necessarily from a certain coercion, either pure or mixed with love, or else altogether free. Freedom altogether is in the one God alone.
Latin
At quia res omnes colligatae sunt loco et coexistentia et compactu, videmus alias aliarum esse fines, sicuti navigationis finis est mercatura, fabricationis navis finis est navigatio, dolationis lignorum est fabricatio, sectionis dolatio, et tamen hae artes inter se non communicant. Nam sector lignorum non secat ut dolentur, sed ut tali labore ipse victum quaerat. Qui vero dolat, non fabricationem intelligit, sed ea ab eo intelligitur qui eum conduxit, ipse vero mercedem intuetur. Qui navim fabricat ad navigationem, quatenus ab alio est non respicit, sed suum habet finem; nauta vero non respicit utrum merces bonae an inutiles sint, sed ut conficiat suum iter; de mercimonio enim curat mercator, de mercatura vero deque omnibus artibus caeteris simul curat respublica, quoniam in illarum communicatione eius consistit felicitas. Unde et Aristoteles bonum universi putat esse ordinem; sed nos id propter quod est ordo loquendo de bono intrinseco. Nam de extrinseco patet quod sit ipse Deus. Quoniam vero quaecunque necessario eveniunt ea ita ordinata sunt ut propter melius eveniant, prout necessitas ad potentiam, ordo ad sapientiam, harmonia melioris ad amorem referuntur. Eveniunt autem necessario omnia ex coactione quodammodo, eaque aut pura aut mixta amori, vel omnino libera. Libertas autem omnino in ipso uno Deo.