On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §206

Man. Post. Cap. III: Observata quaedam — Cap. 1 status / Cap. 2 digression; notanda

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Chapter III. Certain observations on the first and second chapters of the Treatise—some praised, some refuted.

In your first chapter you set the state of the question. With that settled, chapter two digresses to prove that every human being is infected with original sin and so stands exposed to this life's miseries and to death. To what end, I do not see. You yourself admit, in the closing words of chapter 2, that we have no quarrel on that point. I had already proved the same in the Theses you attack—briefly, yes, but with many sound arguments, strong and numerous; you polished some of them and skipped others. Reading through, I marked several things worth notice: some true, yet hostile to the case you are pressing; others that seem to me to clash both with the truth and with my own view.

Latin

CAP. III. Observata quaedam in primo & secundo Capite Tractatus, & alia laudata, alia refutata. PRIMO Capite tui tractatus statum quaestionis constituisti. Eo constituto Capite secundo digrederis ad probandum, omnes homines esse infectos peccato originali, & ideo omnibus hujus vitae miseriis mortique obnoxios. quo consilio, equidem nescio. Nam tu ipse fateris extremis verbis cap. 2. nullam ea de re inter nos esse controversiam: Et vero id ipsum Thesibus quas oppugnas probaveram, paucis quidem verbis, sed argumentis multis & validis, robore & numero praestantibus, quorum quaedam expolivisti, quaedam praetermisisti. Notavi autem inter legendum nonnulla digna observatu, vel quia vera sunt, sed causae quam agis repugnantia, vel quia tam veritati quam meae sententiae adversari mihi videntur.

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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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