On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §387

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC — heirs lose goods without imputation; Deut 24:16

Certainly there is no need of such an imputation for them to be deprived of those goods. For it is enough to that end that the parent, by whatever reason at last—by war's disaster, or a lord's injustice, or a neighbor's injury, or some other reason without any crime of unfaithfulness—lose as Courtier, or even sell, and spend the money: the heirs will be deprived of those same goods without any imputation of unfaithfulness, or a judge's sentence, for this sole cause—that no one gives what he does not have. Sons are heirs of the paternal goods. But what the father either lost or sold is no longer among the paternal goods. But if a human judge imputes the father's crime to the sons, is God to be thought to do the same? Is it fairer to measure our thoughts of God's justice by the norm of human laws than by God's own law? I do not think so. Hear God's law. Deut. 24:16. Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons put to death for fathers: each shall be put to death for his own sin.

Latin

Certe eiusmodi imputatione ut bonis illis priventur nihil opus est. Sufficit enim ad id, parentem quacumque demum ratione, vel bellica clade, vel Domini injustitia, vel vicini iniuria, vel aliqua alia ratione sine ullo infidelitatis crimine Aulicum amittere, aut etiam vendere, & pecuniam consumere: iisdem illis bonis privabuntur haeredes absque ulla infidelitatis imputatione, aut judicis sententia, hac sola de causa, quoniam nemo dat quod non habet. Filii haeredes sunt bonorum paternorum. Quae autem pater vel amisit, vel vendidit in bonis paternis non amplius sunt. Quod si humanus judex paternum crimen filiis imputat, num idem Deus facere censendus est? Utrum aequius est nostras de Dei justitia cogitationes ad legum humanarum normam exigere, quam ad ipsius Dei legem? non arbitror. Audi legem Dei. Deut. 24. 16. Ne morte afficiuntor patres pro filiis, ne filii morte afficiuntor pro patribus: quisque propter peccatum suum afficiuntor morte.

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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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