On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §153

Cap. XIV: Editor exhibits Placeus MS vs Garissoles shreds — before Manuscriptum posterius

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Nothing therefore seems wiser than to set that Placeus manuscript before you, Reader (why should I spend myself proposing or answering those arguments when Placeus has already done it?), and, since Garissoles chose to refute it and copied its scraps and patches into his own book and answered them as he could, to set under each scrap that man's censures and Placeus's own defenses. So you, most fair Reader, may know the whole cause easily and without risk of error, and judge—which would otherwise be hard, not to say impossible. One can scarcely see with what mind or sense each thing was said when only torn, uprooted, and scattered pieces of the discourse are offered. Let no one take offense at that. If anything in the writing deserves blame, it is chiefly in the parts Garissoles has already published. Placeus did not compose it to be printed, and haste may have left spots he would have polished at leisure; yet we would not drop, add, or change even a word, lest anyone doubt our honesty. Take it, most fair Reader, in good part: we give you the whole to read and the whole controversy to judge—thank us, or at least bear it without ill will.

Latin

Quare nihil mihi videtur consultius, quam ut manuscriptum illud Placei tibi, Lector, exhibeam (Cur enim in illis argumentis vel proponendis, vel refutandis operam meam ponerem, cum id jam fuerit ab ipso Placeo praestitum?) ac, quando id refutare voluit D. Garissolius, ejusque passim frustula et lacinias transcripsit in suum librum, et quantum potuit, confutavit, subjiciam singulis illis particulis viri illius reprehensiones, hisque ipsis Placei defensiones. Ita poteris, Lector aequissime, admodum facile, et citra errandi aleam, de tota hac causa cognoscere, et judicium ferre: id quod alioqui difficile, ne dicam impossibile, foret. Vix enim qua mente, quo sensu quidque dictum fuerit, bene perspici potest, cum lacerae tantum, et suis locis revulsae, ac veluti luxatae et dissipatae partes sermonis legenti offeruntur. Neque est quod quisquam propterea offendatur. Si quid enim in eo scripto reprehensione dignum est, id in iis potissimum partibus habere locum putandum est, quae jam sunt a D. Garissolio vulgatae. Non eo quidem consilio a Placeo compositum fuerat ut ederetur, et ex nimia festinatione irrepsere fortasse nonnulla, si per otium licuisset autori, emendanda atque expolienda: tamen ne voculam quidem tollere, addere, aut mutare voluimus, ne quis de nostra fide vel synceritate conqueri posset. Qualecunque est, Tu aequissime Lector, illud aequi bonique consules, quodque ejus integri legendi, totiusque istius controversiae dijudicandae copiam tibi facimus, aut habebis nobis gratiam, aut saltem non iniquo animo feres.

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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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