On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §346

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC nature vs imputing God; justice that fights justice tip

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I therefore ascribe the propagation of this corruption into all Adam's posterity to vicious nature alone, from which nothing can be begotten except what is vicious. But you ascribe it to God imputing the actual sin of one Adam to all men, and inflicting that corruption on each and all of them so as to punish that sin. But if God had been unwilling either to impute the first actual sin of the first man to us, just as he does not impute the rest of that same man's sins to us; or, having imputed it, had been unwilling to punish it with that punishment which is sin and the fountain of all other sins, we would be born without sin, incorrupt: but why did he will to inflict both? You flee to a justice which of course demanded that that actual sin be imputed also to us about to be born so many ages later, and being imputed be so punished. Whence you have such a justice I do not know, nor do I understand why it is called justice, and it seems to me to fight with the very notion of justice. But of this matter elsewhere.

Latin

Huius ergo corruptionis propagationem in omnes Adami posteros soli naturae vitiosae ascribo, ex qua nihil potest gigni nisi vitiosum. Tu vero eam Deo ascribis imputanti peccatum actuale unius Adami omnibus hominibus, illisque singulis & omnibus corruptionem illam, ut peccatum illud puniat, infligenti. Quod si Deus noluisset, vel primum peccatum actuale primi hominis nobis imputare, quemadmodum caetera eiusdem hominis peccata nobis non imputat; aut si imputatum noluisset punire ea poena, qua peccatum est, ac fons omnium aliorum peccatorum, nasceremur absque peccato incorrupti: cur autem utrumque indidit voluit? Confugitis ad justitiam, quae scilicet exigebat ut peccatum illud actuale, & nobis tot post saecula nascituris imputaretur, & imputatum sic puniretur. Eiusmodi justitiam unde habeatis nescio, nec cur justitia appelletur intelligo, & mihi videtur cum ipsa justitiae notione pugnare. Sed de hac re alibi.

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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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