On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §434

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: Thomas praised; inherent vice; status questionis restated

So I praise these words of Thomas Aquinas. In each of us there is truly and properly sin deep in the marrow, not indeed actual, but, so to speak, habitual, worthy not only of temporal death but of eternal also, which our side usually prove against the Papists with many arguments which you have doubtless both read and approve. We, therefore, Adam's transgression made liable to bodily and eternal death by the intervention of the inherent vice and fault with which it infected us. But this vice in Adam natural sequel produced; and from Adam into us it was propagated no otherwise than human nature itself by carnal generation. I wanted to repeat the status of the question in this place, because it becomes us to keep it purged and clarified perpetually before our eyes, lest sometime straying from it we slide into empty logomachies.

Latin

Itaque laudo haec verba Thomae Aquinatis. Singulis nobis medullitus inest vere & proprie peccatum, non quidem actuale, sed, ut ita loquar, habituale, dignum non temporali modo morte, sed aeterna etiam, quod nostri adversus Pontificios solent multis argumentis evincere, quae tu proculdubio & legisti, & probas. Nos ergo transgressio Adami fecit obnoxios morti corporali & aeternae interventu inhaerentis vitii & culpae, quo nos infecit. Hoc autem vitium in Adamo naturali sequela produxit; ab Adamo vero in nos haud aliter quam ipsa natura humana propagatum est generatione carnali. Volui statum quaestionis hoc loco repetere, quoniam eum purgatum & enucleatum habere perpetuo ob oculos nos decet, ne ab eo aliquando aberrantes in inanes λογομαχίας prolabamur.

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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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