On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §237

Man. Post. Cap. IV: GAR 3 — actus vs habitus / Thes. 24

Garissoles' third reason. Acts that build a habit are not themselves the acquiring of the habit—acquisition follows them. Likewise acts that shake a habit off are not themselves the privation—privation follows them. So Placeus boasts in vain in his Theses on fallen man before grace (Th. 24): that we lose righteousness by the very fact that we break the law, and that the change which brought corruption into Adam itself expelled righteousness from him.

If he means law-breaking is the meritorious cause of losing righteousness, we grant it. If he thinks law-breaking and privation of righteousness differ not at all, we refuse: breaking the law is an action; privation is a passion; acting and suffering differ more than in words. God creates souls without the ornament of original righteousness yet does not, by creating, make them law-breakers. Expulsion of righteousness precedes corruption; corruption follows expulsion—antecedent and consequent differ. God stripped man of creation's gifts yet did not corrupt him.

Latin

GAR. 3. Denique sicut actus illi, quibus habitus comparatur, non sunt ipsa habitus acquisitio, sed ad eos consequitur acquisitio: ita etiam actus, quibus excutitur habitus, non sunt ipsa habitus privatio, sed ad eos consequitur illa privatio. Frustra ergo jactat Vir Doctus in Thesibus suis de statu hom. Lapsi ante Grat. Th. 24. Nos hoc ipso justitia privari, quod legem transgredimur, & hac ipsa mutatione, qua corruptio introducta est in Adamum, ab eodem expulsam esse justitiam. Etenim si intelligit transgressionem legis esse causam meritoriam privationis justitiae, facile agnoscimus. Si putat transgressionem legis & privationem justitiae nihil inter se differre omnino, non probamus: quia transgressio legis est actio, privatio justitiae passio est: at pati & agere plusquam verbis differunt: Et Deus animas hominum creat justitia originalis decoramento destitutas, qui tamen creando non facit legis praevaricatrices. Sic expulsio justitiae est antecedens ad corruptionem, & corruptio consequens ad expulsionem justitiae: antecedens autem & consequens, nonnihil differunt inter se, ut opinor: Et Deus hominem concessis creatione donis spoliavit, quem tamen non corrupit.

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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.

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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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