On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §381

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC meritorie = deserve condemn; judge must not destroy justice

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PLAC. First, what is it to lose justice meritoriously, if not to deserve not to be justified by the judge, but to be condemned? For to deserve that as punishment the judge take from him the habit of justice is to deserve that the judge take away what is not, and do what seems to fight with the justice of the lawgiver and of the judge. For the judge is rather bound to conserve justice than to destroy it, and to take it from him who is endowed with it. Nor does it become him to make those whom he judges unjust and sinners. That the comparison he institutes between the faithful in the state of grace and Adam in the state of nature is not apt, no one, I think, fails to see. For they are opposed to each other—so far are they from being alike—the state of fallen nature and the state of grace. Adam's justice was a natural gift; the justice inhering in us is a supernatural gift.

Latin

PLAC. Primum quid est amittere justitiam meritorie, nisi mereri non justificari a judice, sed condemnari? Nam mereri, ut pro poena judex ab eo auferat justitiae habitum, est mereri ut judex tollat quod non est, & faciat id quod cum justitia legislatoris & judicis pugnare videtur. Tenetur enim potius judex conservare justitiam, quam destruere, & ab eo qui ea praeditus est, tollere. Nec enim eum decet eos, quos judicat, facere injustos & peccatores. Comparatio quam instituit inter fideles in statu gratiae, & Adamum in statu naturae, quam non sit apposita, nemo, opinor, non videt. Opponuntur enim inter se, tantum abest ut sint similes, status naturae lapsae, & status gratiae. Justitia Adami erat donum naturale, justitia nobis inhaerens est donum supernaturale.

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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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