On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §452

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: conscience recoils — God punishing infants by bare imputation

For it vehemently offends me that you, and certain other brothers of ours, say that God punishes all humans, even little children, with death of the body (and eternal), indeed with death of the soul, which formally is sin, for an actual sin which is theirs in no way, except by imputation, because God imputes it to them. Conscience shudders even to think it, and that he may give you and them another mind, I earnestly beg the Lord from the heart.

Latin

Me enim vehementer offendit, quod tu, & alii quidam fratres nostri, dicitis, Deum omnes homines, etiam puerulos, punire morte corporis (& aeterna) immo morte animae, quae formaliter peccatum est, ob peccatum actuale quod eorum non est ullo modo, nisi imputatione, quia Deus illud ipsis imputat. Id vel cogitare horret conscientia, ac ut aliam tibi & illis mentem det, Dominum supplex ex animo precor.

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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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