On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §335

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR physical faculty vs user; PLAC only mind tip

her, since a last end has relation to intermediate and subaltern ends, properly that will be a last end for those who can know the distinction of subaltern ends and the last: which, since it can fit neither that universal corruption nor the generative faculty or any other simply physical one, how will the generative faculty be said to be turned by corruption to generation as to a last end? Distinguishing rather between the faculty and the man who uses the faculty would have been better. For he can indeed by his understanding and will set himself a last end: but the physical faculty itself has the end to which it was determined by the Author of nature, which it always regards, whatever the corrupt man attempts—as the concoctive concoction, the generative generation, &c. Learned man reasons well, only the mind acts for an end, not the will: for the will does not properly know, much less know the distinction between the last end and the subordinate ones.

Latin

GAR. Praeterea, Cum finis ultimus relationem habeat ad fines intermedios & subalternos, eorum erit proprie finis ultimus, qui finium subalternorum, & ultimi distinctionem nosse possunt: quod cum neque in corruptionem universalem illam, neque in facultatem generatricem, aut aliam simpliciter physicam convenire possit, quomodo dicetur facultas genitrix a corruptione converti ad generationem tanquam ad finem ultimum? Distinguendum potius fuerit inter facultatem, & hominem, qui facultate utitur. Hic enim poterit sane intelligentia ac voluntate sua finem ultimum sibi praestituere: sed ipsa facultas physica, finem habet ad quem ab Autore naturae determinata est, quem semper respicit, quicquid homo corruptus moliatur, ut concoctrix concoctionem, genitrix generationem, &c. PLAC. Si bene ratiocinatur vir doctus sola mens agit propter finem, non voluntas: haec enim non cognoscit proprie, nedum ut distinctionem cognoscat inter finem ultimum & subordinatos.

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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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