On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §433

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: mode only — opponent's immediate imputation vs natural efficiency

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You ascribe this to God's justice, which immediately imputes that transgression, cut off from the corruption that followed, to us all, by this very fact that we are sons of Adam, not otherwise than if we ourselves, who then were nothing, had committed it, and consequently punishes us first with inflicted moral corruption which is sin and the cause of all our sins, then with death of the body and eternal death. So you want that actual transgression to have made us liable to death by the intervention of such imputation. But I say without such imputation that that transgression by natural efficiency and sequel vitiated Adam's faculties, even that by which he begot us, and that those vitiated faculties begot vitiated offspring, and this another, and so the vice, propagated and multiplied together with human nature, reached all men, Christ alone excepted, by the sole law of nature whereby each thing begets its like—which general law, belonging not only to men but also to other Creatures endowed with the faculty of generating, and set and sanctioned by the antecedent decree concerning creating the world and constituting nature, it did not become God to abrogate or infringe because of Adam's transgression.

Latin

Tu hoc adscribis justitiae Dei, quae transgressionem illam praecisam ab insecuta corruptione nobis omnibus, hoc ipso quod Adami filii sumus, imputet immediate, non secus ac si eam ipsi, qui tum nulli eramus, admisisseimus, ac consequenter nos primum inflictâ corruptione morali quae peccatum est, & causa omnium nostrorum peccatorum, deinde morte corporis & aeterna, puniat. Itaque vis transgressionem illam actualem nos fecisse morti obnoxios interventu eiusmodi imputationis. Ego vero absque tali imputatione aio transgressionem illam naturali efficientia & sequela vitiasse facultates Adami, etiam illam qua nos genuit, eas vero vitiatas genuisse prolem vitiatam, hanc aliam, & ita vitium propagatum & multiplicatum una cum natura humana ad omnes homines, uno Christo excepto, pervenisse sola lege naturae, qua sui quodque simile gignit, quam generalem legem non ad homines solum, sed ad alias etiam Creaturas, quotquot generandi facultate praeditae sunt, pertinentem, & decreto antecedente de creando mundo & natura constituenda positam & sancitam, non decuit Deum ob Adami transgressionem vel abrogare, vel infringere.

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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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