On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §443

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: sentence syllogism — if penalty common, sin common

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You go on and draw an argument from the sentence which God pronounced to Adam fallen into sin in these words, because you obeyed your wife's voice, and ate from the tree, and so on. From there you argue thus: If the penalty was common, the sin ought also to have been common. But the penalty was common. Therefore the sin also. You prove the major by this syllogism: A just Judge does not inflict a common penalty on all men except for a sin common to all. It occurs to your mind that this whole can be conceded by me, who acknowledge a sin common to all men, namely hereditary vice worthy of common penalties.

Latin

Pergis & ducis argumentum a sententia, quam Deus Adamo prolapso in peccatum pronunciavit his verbis, quia paruisti voci uxoris tuae, & comedisti ex arbore &c. Inde sic argumentaris, Si poena fuit communis, peccatum debuit etiam esse commune. Atqui poena fuit communis. Ergo etiam peccatum. Majorem probas hoc syllogismo, Justus Judex non infligit poenam communem omnibus hominibus, nisi ob commune peccatum omnium. Subit animum tuum hoc totum posse a me concedi, qui agnosco peccatum commune omnium hominum, nempe vitium haereditarium dignum communibus poenis.

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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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