On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §295

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Ad 3–5 — Cain; first vs later; elect liberation

To the third: Why did Adam's sin hurt Cain, and Cain's sin hurt Adam not at all? Because Adam begot Cain, not Cain Adam. To the fourth: Why did the first sin rather corrupt us than Adam's following sins? Because that corrupted Adam's nature; those followed corruption already made as effects follow a cause. To the fifth: Why was Adam freed from that corruption which by his action he procured for himself, and all infants, who have done no evil, are not freed? He was freed from the guilt of that corruption by the grace of justification, and from the inherence of penalties by the grace of regeneration, because he believed and repented, and his belief was because he was electectect. The same happens to all other elect. But why this one rather than that was elect can be ascribed to no other cause than the freest will of God, who does what He will with His own. And he begot not according to grace, but according to nature, conceiving corrupt ones, just as one circumcised by art begets the uncircumcised.

Latin

Ad 3. Cur Adami peccatum Caino nocuit, Caini peccatum Adamo minime nocuit? quia Adamus genuit Cainum, non Cainus Adamum. Ad 4. Cur primum peccatum nos potius corrupit, quam sequentia Adami peccata? quia illud naturam Adami corrupit, ista corruptionem jam factam consequuta sunt ut causam effecta. Ad 5. Cur Adamus ab illa corruptione liberatus est, quam sua actione sibi comparavit; infantes omnes, qui nihil mali egerunt, non liberantur? Liberatus est ab illius corruptionis reatu gratia justificationis, & ab inhaerentia poenarum gratia regenerationis, quia credidit & resipuit; credidit autem, quia fuit electus. Idem evenit aliis omnibus electis. Cur autem hic potius quam ille fuerit electus, alii causae quam liberrimae Dei voluntati, de suo quod vult facientis, tribui nequit. Genuit autem non secundum gratiam, sed secundum naturam, conceptus corruptos, sicut arte circumcissus gignit incircumcisos.

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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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