On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §235

Man. Post. Cap. IV: PLAC — Adam's first; animal analogy

Placeus. He never states the conclusion; those two premises cannot yield what he needs to prove. The question is not every law-breaking, but Adam's first; not any loss of righteousness, but the loss of the righteousness Adam had before the fall. My minor is about that breach and that loss. Garissoles' minor must either be universal or name that case; neither done, nothing against me follows.

The same pattern would overturn endless true propositions—even "man is an animal." Things that can really be separated are not identical; something can be an animal and yet not a man.

Latin

PLAC. Conclusionem non expressit: haud enim ex duabus illis praemissis concludi potest id quod ei probandum incumbebat. Agitur enim non de omni violatione legis, sed de tali, nempe prima illa Adami, nec de qualibet privatione justitiae, sed de privatione justitiae qua praeditus erat ante lapsum Adamus. De hac enim violatione & privatione intelligenda est argumenti mei propositio minor. Aut igitur universalem esse oportebat Viri Docti Minorem, aut nominatim de illa privatione & violatione intelligi. Neutrum cum sit factum, nihil potest concludi mihi repugnans. Deinde simili argumento possent infinitae propositiones verissimae refelli, etiam ista, homo est animal. Nam ea non sunt unum & idem quae reapse possunt separari. Atqui potest aliquid esse animal, nec tamen esse homo.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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