On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §347

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Quid inquiet — wise permission; fall terminus tip

What then, someone will say—was it done without God's judgment, and that a just one, that that inherent vice invaded Adam and from him flowed through into all men? Not at all. For neither could Adam be corrupted, nor once corrupted transfer his corruption into posterity, with God either unknowing or unwilling. Both therefore were done with God wisely and justly permitting. Why he permitted Adam's fall I do not now inquire. The fall being permitted, Adam could not without a miracle fail to be corrupted. For a motion being posited, the terminus of the motion is necessarily posited. A fall from a higher place into a lower being posited, when it is finished what has fallen must be in the lower place. And so it could not be that after actual aversion from God and conversion to creatures Adam would not be averse from God and converted to creatures. It also could not be that thereafter he would not use an evil conscience and dread God. Nor was it fitting that, the fall being permitted, God should disturb the nature of things by hindering the terminus of the fall (if indeed it could be hindered without implication of contradiction), or at once destroy what was produced by restoring Adam to his pristine state. But Adam by that actual sin of his deserved to be deserted by God, nor could that sin be pardoned except of grace on account of the future satisfaction and death of Jesus Christ. And so Adam's corruption is ascribed to the just judgment of God.

Latin

Quid, inquiet aliquis, factum ne est igitur absque Dei judicio, eodemque justo, ut vitium illud inhaerens in Adamum invaserit, & ab eo in omnes homines permanarit? Non sane. neque enim aut corrumpi Adamus, aut corruptus suam in posteros corruptionem transfundere Deo vel inscio vel invito potuit. Factum est igitur utrumque Deo sapienter & juste permittente. Cur lapsum Adami permiserit nunc non inquiro. lapsu permisso non potuit Adamus sine miraculo non corrumpi. motu enim posito ponitur necessario motus terminus. posito lapsu e loco superiori in inferiorem, eo finito, quod lapsum est in loco inferiore necesse est esse. Itaque fieri non potuit quin post actualem a Deo aversionem & conversionem ad creaturas Adamus non esset a Deo aversus & ad creaturas conversus. fieri etiam non potuit quin deinceps mala uteretur conscientia, deumque exhorresceret. non erat autem consentaneum ut permisso lapsu Deus rerum naturam turbaret impedito lapsus termino, (si tamen absque contradictionis implicatione impediri potuit,) aut cum productum statim destrueret restituto in pristinum statum Adamo. merebatur autem Adamus suo illo actuali peccato ut a Deo desereretur, nec condonari id peccatum potuit nisi ex gratia ob futuram Jesu Christi satisfactionem & mortem. Itaque corruptio Adami tribuitur justo Dei judicio.

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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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