On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §354

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Scripture never ascribes corruption to judgment

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PLAC. Scripture never ascribes corruption, or the propagation of corruption, to God's judgment. And so it is not a matter of Scripture's locution, but of the Theologians', to be taken insofar as the analogy of faith and the nature of the thing can bear, toward the better rather than the worse part. But if by the name of just judgment they understood nothing other than that work of God by which he inflicts some punishment from the reason of vindicative justice, they truly understood the judgment of God against men. But every judgment of God against men because they are sinners presupposes that they are sinners; it does not make them so. Here, however, the question is of a judgment of God that antecedes the sin of men who, without it, would not be sinners.

Latin

PLAC. Scriptura nunquam corruptionem, aut corruptionis propagationem judicio Dei ascribit. itaque non agitur de locutione Scripturae, sed Theologorum, accipienda, pro eo ac pati potest analogia fidei & rei natura, in meliorem potius quam in detriorem partem. Quod si justi judicii nomine nihil aliud intellexerunt, quam opus illud Dei, quo poenam aliquam ex ratione justitiae vindicatricis irrogat, revera intellexerunt judicium Dei contra homines. Sed omne Dei judicium contra homines quia sunt peccatores, supponit eos esse peccatores, non facit. Hic autem agitur de judicio Dei, quod antecedit peccatum hominum, qui absque eo forent, peccatores non essent.

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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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