On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §122

Cap. X: Garissoles’s sense of peccasse; habitual guilt; extrinsic vs intrinsic

On Garissoles's reading, to have sinned with Adam means the sin is imputed, and imputed ahead of the inherent blot: otherwise those reasons would not touch us. But once that imputation is set aside, can aversion from God, in anyone, fail to deserve rebuke? The child's fault is not that he was born so, but that he is so constitutioned — base, godless, God's enemy. That is a great fault indeed: not actual guilt as they speak of it, yet habitual. From actual disobedience he is called disobedient from without, by the cause that produced it; from habitual disobedience, from within, by the subject that bears it. So the infant is not guilty from a nearby act but from a habit: not because he did some evil deed, but because he himself is evil and set for evil doing.

Latin

Ex mente D. Garissolii peccasse cum Adamo est peccatum imputari, & quidem imputatione vitium inhaerens antecedente: alioqui nos istae rationes non oppugnarent. Jam autem sublata ista imputatione, potestne aversio a Deo, in quocunque sit, non digna esse reprehensione? Culpa quidem eius non est quod ita generatus est, sed quod ita comparatus est, quod nequam, quod impius, quod Dei adversarius est, haec est profecto magna culpa, non quidem, ut loquuntur, culpa actualis, sed tamen habitualis. Ab actuali inobedientia causa a qua est, extrinsece; ab habituali vero subjectum in quo est, intrinsece denominatur inobediens. Non est igitur parvulus reus ab actione proxime sed ab habitu: non quia malam aliquam actionem commiserit, sed quia ipse malus est, & ad male agendum comparatus.

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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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