On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §462

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: Adam's first actual not by nature owed to all as corrupting imputation

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But that first actual sin of Adam, whose author the serpent himself was, did not by its nature merit the moral corruption of all humans, nor was it by its nature of such a kind that, divine justice being preserved, it could not but be imputed to all humans unto fixing that vice in them. And if you think it was such by nature, you will also depart from the opinion of the great men who with you defend that imputation, and you will do us a great favor if you teach and prove it.

Latin

At peccatum illud primum actuale Adami, cujus ipsi author serpens fuit, natura sua non merebatur omnium hominum corruptionem moralem, nec erat natura sua ejusmodi, ut salva divina justitia non posset non imputari omnibus hominibus ad illud vitium ipsis infigendum. Quod si putes tale fuisse natura, & discedes a sententia magnorum virorum qui tecum imputationem illam tuentur, & pergratum nobis feceris, si id docueris & probaveris.

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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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