On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §210

Man. Post. Cap. III: Laudo fons/radix — nature law not judge sentence; before-fall decree

I also praise these words of yours: just as a polluted spring pollutes its streams, and as a root puts out shoots after its own kind—bad shoots if the root is bad—IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY the first man, corrupted and a sinner, begot and brought forth corrupted, sinful children.

I take that up. A polluted spring infects its streams, and a bad root yields bad shoots, only by nature's law that each thing begets its like. Why not say the same of the first man, if corrupted he begot us corrupted in exactly that way? If that natural law, already set and sanctioned before the sin, is enough to propagate original sin, why charge it to God's justice and to the sentence of God the Judge—to my great scandal, who complain that God's justice is deeply wronged? The very word "propagation" could have warned you: propagation is nature's work, following nature's laws, while God, as nature's author and conserver, keeps those laws in force by His concurrence. They hang on a decree that, in nature's order, seems to me to have come before the decree permitting the fall. A later decree neither could nor should undo them.

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Laudo etiam haec tua verba, Quemadmodum fons infectus rivos etiam inficit, & sicut radix producit surculos secundum speciem suam, malos scilicet, si mala est, EODEM PRORSUS MODO primus homo corruptus & peccator genuit & protulit filios corruptos & peccatores. Subsumo, atqui fons infectus inficit rivos & radix mala profert malos surculos ea tantummodo lege Naturae, qua sibi quodque simile gignit. Cur igitur non idem statuis de primo homine, si nos eodem prorsus modo corruptus corruptos genuit? Si lex ista naturae sufficit ad peccati originalis propagationem ante peccatum constituta & sancita, quid est quamobrem eam dei justitiae, dei judicis sententiae imputes non sine magno meo scandalo, qui sic magnam Dei justitiae fieri injuriam queror? atque hujus te rei ipsum propagationis nomen admonere potuit: est enim propagatio opus naturae, quae suas in ea leges sequitur, Deo, ut est naturae author & conservator, leges illas suo concursu conservante & constabiliente, pendent enim ex decreto, quod ordine naturae decretum de lapsu permittendo mihi videtur antecessisse. Itaque posteriore decreto rescindi nec potuerunt, nec debuerunt.

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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.

Catalogue & scope

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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Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput V Distributio + Caput VI tip (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput VI remainder Maresius args I–VIII (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput VII tip Garissoles through Rivetus (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput VII rest after Rivetus tip through Garissoles consequent confession (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput VII Praeter aberrationem through Christ–Adam close (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, Caput VII Quinta & ultima ratio through p.70 return (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. VIII Hypognosticon / interdict silence (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. VIII personal words / quia paruisti (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. VIII Gospel promise / seed of woman (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. VIII death-reply / Ps 32 (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. VIII Abraham / OT close (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. IX Rom 5:12 open (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. IX imputatum-est reductio (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, Man. Post. Cap. IX three senses of imputation (Saumur 1661) (Latin)
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