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—if, I say, the first man’s wickedness inflicted all this on God’s image, Christ’s grace is plainly very weak in its gifts, since it has found nothing to remedy so many massive evils.Or if it has found a remedy, state it.Let us now compare each point individually.If Adam overturned the institutions of nature itself, beyond the acts of his will, Christ should above all have repaired what Adam had shattered, following the very tracks along which Adam had destroyed it.
Si haec, inquam, cuncta in Dei imaginem primi hominis invexit iniquitas, manifestum est nimis esse imbecillam Christi gratiam in suis muneri bus, quae nihil, quod his tot trabalibus malis mederetur, invenit; aut si invenit, affirma. Singula enim nunc singulis conferamus. Si Adam praeter voluntatis opera ipsius naturae instituta subvertit, nihil debuit magis Christus quam ea, quae ab illo fuerant elisa, reparare his videlicet vestigiis, quibus ille subruerat.