On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §337

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR — why generation not science/pleasure/externals?

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GAR. Next, when the learned man proposes a last end which has succeeded into the place of the true end, falsely apparent—namely a fallacious species of happiness to be found in creatures—how does he at once leap to generation, that is, from a general end to a singular one? For he who acknowledges that another falsely apparent end has succeeded into the place of the true last end is not therefore at once compelled to conclude that that end must be generation. Why rather than science, or pleasure, or external goods, &c., unless a reason appear from elsewhere why generation rather than any other whatever should be said to have succeeded into the place of the true last end?

Latin

GAR. Deinde cum finem ultimum vir doctus proponat, qui in veri finis locum successerit, falso apparentem, nempe fallacem felicitatis speciem in creaturis reperiendam, quomodo statim desilit ad generationem, hoc est, a generali fine ad singularem? Non enim qui agnoscit successisse, in locum veri finis ultimi finem alium falso apparentem, ideo statim concludere cogitur, eum finem esse debere generationem. Cur enim potius quam scientiam, vel voluptatem, vel bona externa, &c. nisi aliunde pateat ratio, quare potius successisse dicatur in locum veri finis ultimi generatio, quam aliud quodlibet?

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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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