On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §376

Man. Post. Cap. VII: GAR officer still needs judgment; PLAC grade already lost

is there room for you to say that man by this very thing—that he fell—fell from his holiness and justice, and so there was no need of God's judicial action to strip him of these gifts. What then? Does not also a royal officer who by raising war against the King leaves city, province, kingdom, by that very thing fall from the office he had formerly borne—and yet is none the less by the King's subsequent judgment abdicated from his office? ogether falls from the office—that is, he has deserved to be deprived of the office, and that the same office be conferred on another: for which the King's sentence is needed; otherwise it would not be lawful to adorn another with that office. For that royal officer would still be held to retain his office. For it is one thing to raise war and leave city or province, another to be deprived of office: and so sometimes, such a crime being committed, the judicial sentence is deferred for some time, during which such an officer is not yet held to have lost his office. But what is this to the matter? Have I not shown that by this very thing—that Adam fell—he fell from the grade of obedience and justice in which he formerly was?

Latin

GAR. Neque est quod dicas, hominem eo ipso quod lapsus est, excidisse sua sanctitate & justitia, adeoque nihil opus fuisse actione Dei judiciaria, ut his donis spoliaretur. Quid enim? Non & Regius officiarius, qui bello adversus Regem suscitando, urbe, provincia, Regno excedit, eo ipso excidit illo quod antea gesserat munere: nec tamen eo minus consequenti Regis judicio abdicatur officio suo. PLAC. Omnino excidit munere, hoc est, commeritus est ut munere privetur, idemque munus in alium conferatur: quam ad rem opus est Regis sententia: alioqui non liceret eo munere alium ornare. Censeretur enim is Regius officiarius suum illud munus adhuc retinere. Aliud enim est bellum suscitare, urbe, aut provincia excedere, aliud munere privari: Et sic nonnunquam admisso eiusmodi crimine, ut ad aliquod tempus differatur sententia judiciaria, quo tempore eiusmodi officiarius nondum amisisse suum munus censetur. Sed quid hoc ad rem? Nonne enim ostendi, hoc ipso quod Adamus lapsus est, excidisse eum ex gradu, in quo antea erat, obedientiae & justitiae?

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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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