On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §328

Man. Post. Cap. VI: Why corrupted Adam begets corrupted — nature infects

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It is asked second: why did Adam, corrupted and vitiated by sin, beget sons similarly corrupted? I attribute that to the nature of that corruption which, being universal, corrupted and infected the generative force itself, insofar as it is a certain moral faculty, and turned it to generation not as to a means but as to a last end. Further, the last end, since it is not defined or dependent on another but all things on it, is infinite by its nature. And so the faculties are carried toward it without limitation or measure, in a way infinitely. After therefore in place of the true last end, that is God, there succeeded a falsely appearing, deceitful appearance of happiness to be found in creatures, the generative faculty dealt with generation immoderately, without bridle, without limitation, corruptly and depravedly, as around a last end—the superior part of the soul turned the same way together with the sensitive appetite, not restraining but driving.

Latin

Quaeritur secundo, cur peccato corruptus ac vitiatus Adamus filios genuerit similiter corruptos? Ego corruptionis illius naturae id tribuo, quae universalis cum esset, ipsam vim generatricem, quatenus moralis quaedam facultas est, corrupit, & infecit, & convertit ad generationem, non ut ad medium, sed ut ad finem ultimum. Porro finis ultimus, cum ab alio non definiatur, aut pendeat, sed ab eo omnia, natura sua infinitus est. Itaque in eum feruntur facultates sine limitatione, aut modo, quodammodo infinite. Postquam igitur in locum veri finis ultimi, hoc est, Dei successit falso apparens, fallax nempe felicitatis species reperiendae in creaturis, immoderate, absque freno, absque limitatione, corrupte, depravateque circa generationem versata est, tanquam circa finem ultimum facultas generandi, parte animae superiore, eodem conversa una cum appetitu sensitivo, non cohibente, sed impellente.

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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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