On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §313

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC duplex generative; GAR deficient-nature act

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That was the act by which he begot Cain, this by which he begot Seth: for from Seth, not from Cain, we all draw our origin: I embraced both, lest any escape should lie open. GAR. To the matter itself I say: not every first act of nature was to be imputed to posterity (for Scripture neither openly testifies this, nor even lightly hints it) but only the first act of a nature failing from that perfection which God had given it in creation, and with the threat changed: in the day you first eat of the forbidden fruit, dying you shall die. Since therefore the first act of generating was in itself no act of a nature rebelling and failing from the Creator, any more than the first act of breathing, digesting, walking, &c.; but that first disobedience was the first act of a failing nature, whereby Adam most basely fell from the primary covenant—no one ought to wonder if both the first act of sinning is imputed to posterity, and the first act of generating is not.

Latin

Ille fuit actus quo Cainum genuit, hic quo Sethum: Ex Setho enim, non vero ex Caino, nos omnes originem ducimus: utrumque, ne quod pateret effugium, complexus sum. GAR. Ad rem ipsam dico, non quemlibet primum actum naturae fuisse posteris imputandum (hoc enim Scriptura neque aperte testatur, neque vel levissime insinuat) sed primum tantum actum naturae deficientis ab ea perfectione, quam ipsi Deus creatione indiderat, eaque mutata comminationem, quo die primum de fructu vetito comederis, moriendo morieris. Cum igitur primus actus generandi, nullus fuerit per se actus naturae rebellantis ac deficientis a creatore, magis quam primus actus respirandi, concoquendi, ambulandi, &c. Sed prima illa inobedientia fuerit primus deficientis naturae actus, quo scilicet Adamus a primario foedere defecit turpissime, nemo mirari debet, si & primus peccandi actus posteris imputetur, & primus generandi actus non imputetur.

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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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