On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §121

Cap. X: Habitual aversion / third ration — infants without peccasse-cum-Adamo

Second — I recite the reasons as they stand in D. Garissoles — habitual aversion cannot even be conceived unless actual aversion went before. That is strikingly false if the actual aversion meant is the infants' own. Who denies that Adam's own actual turning from God preceded the habitual turn in him, and that this was passed down into the little ones? Aversion from God, wherever it is found, is sin simply because it is aversion from God. Third: imagine an infant who has aversion and guilt yet never sinned with Adam — how is he justly blamed and punished? What is his fault in being born so? Could he stop being begotten that way?

Latin

Secundo (recito enim has rationes ut apud D. Garissolium extant) aversio habitualis, nisi praecesserit actualis, ne intelligi quidem potest. Hoc vero insigniter falsum est, si actualis aversio ipsorum parvulorum intelligitur. Alioqui quis negat aversionem actualem Adami praecessisse habitualem in ipso, & hanc esse in parvulos propagatam? Profecto aversio a Deo, in quocunque sit, hoc ipso quod est aversio a Deo, peccatum est. Tertio, fingamus parvulum aliquem habere aversionem & reatum, & tamen non peccasse cum Adamo, quis capere poterit, eum merito reprehendi, & puniri debere. Quam culpam habet in eo, quod ita generatus est? Num impedire potuit, ne sic gigneretur?

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

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IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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