On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §367

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC courtier similitude limps — condition vs goods

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This similitude limps miserably. First, the condition is faithfulness; the goods are titles, dignities, estates. And so the condition, and the goods received under that condition, are things altogether diverse and by their nature separable. For those goods can be lost by war, or prodigality, or dice, or lawsuits rashly undertaken, or some other thing, while faith is kept—or, faith being violated, can be retained. Here, however, the goods are rectitude, justice, holiness; the condition is the conservation of these very goods. For what was required of Adam except that he persevere in rectitude, justice, holiness, faith, duty? Do not these very goods include faith? do they not contain obedience to God?

Latin

Haec similitudo misere claudicat. Primum conditio est fidelitas; bona tituli, dignitates, fundi. Itaque conditio, & bona sub illa conditione accepta sunt res admodum diversae, & natura sua separabiles. Possunt enim bona illa bello, vel profusione, vel alea, vel litibus temere susceptis, vel aliqua alia re amitti conservata fide, aut hac violata retineri. Hic vero bona sunt rectitudo, justitia, sanctitas, conditio horum ipsorum bonorum conservatio. Quid enim ab Adamo exigebatur nisi ut perseveraret in rectitudine, justitia, sanctitate, fide, officio? Annon haec ipsa bona fidem includunt? obedientiam Deo continent.

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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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