On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §413

Man. Post. Cap. VII: Objection 7 — judicial law vs war; tip before God-as-judge

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Seventh. To impute sin and to inflict a penalty are acts of a court. A judge must do them according to laws. And the law runs: The soul that has sinned shall itself die. A father shall not bear a son's iniquity, nor a son a father's. War is another regime: laws fall silent, and, as in a broken order, all things are done by force; nor is the end that justice be done, but victory—for whose sake the people under attack work only to harm the one who makes war. Because a King's strength sits in his subjects' numbers and wealth, they try to grind that strength down, diminish it, and overthrow it by stripping subjects of force and goods and life: both to vex the King and hurt him, and to save themselves and grow richer. God, when he charges men with sin and takes vengeance, does not play that war-game: he takes a Judge's part.

Latin

Septimo, peccati imputatio, & poenae inflictio, actiones sunt judiciariae. Fieri debent a judice secundum leges. Lex autem est, Anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur. Non feret iniquitatem filii pater, nec patris filius. Contra in bello leges silent, &, ut in statu perturbato, omnia vi fiunt: nec finis est ut fiat justitia, sed victoria, cuius causa gens cui bellum infertur in id unum intenta est, ut inferenti incommodet. Quoniam autem Regis potentia in subditorum multitudine & opibus sita est, eam ut atterant, & imminuant, & evertant, subditos Regi pro viribus, & bonis, & vita spoliare conantur: in quo scopus est & regi aegre facere, illique incommodare, & se tueri, ac opibus augere. Deus vero cum peccatum hominibus imputat & vindictam exercet, Judicis partibus fungitur.

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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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