On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §325

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC vs Pighius — hereditary vice proximate death-cause

Which was the opinion of Pighius and Catharinus and Salmeron, rightly condemned by our Churches: for if you believe there is in infants an original inherent vice which is truly sin, which suffices for condemning the human raceaceace, which makes infants hiding in the maternal womb guilty of eternal death before God—why, when you ask why infants die, does it not satisfy the one who answers that in them the cause of death is the vice or sin hereditarily inherent? For this is to give the proximate cause of infants' death, whose remote cause is Adam's fall.

Latin

Quae Pighii & Catharini, & Salmeronis fuit sententia ab Ecclesiis nostris iure damnata: nam si credis in infantibus vitium esse originale inhaerens, quod vere peccatum sit, quod generi humano damnando sufficiat, quod infantes in utero materno delitescentes aeternae mortis reos coram Deo peragat, cur tibi quaerenti, cur infantes moriantur, non satisfacit qui respondet, in illis causam esse mortis vitium seu peccatum hereditario inhaerens? Hoc enim est mortis infantium proximam causam afferre, cuius remota est lapsus Adami.

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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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