On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §597

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — Martyr vs Pighius; merit of true condemnation — 'by imputation'?

I will add these few words of Martyr from the same place, Loci §7: "We neither can nor ought to rest in this comment"—he means Pighius's comment—"for God's wrath is provoked only justly. Nor is it of such a kind that it can be kindled rashly or by chance. So there must be something evil in our nature, for the avenging of which the divine wrath is stirred." Otherwise, how would we merit a true and properly so-called condemnation, if we had no merit of that kind of condemnation of our own? "It is ours," you will say, "by imputation." So imputation, I reply, makes us merit an eternal penalty that otherwise we do not merit.

Latin

Addam haec pauca Martyris, ex eodem loco Com. §. 7. "Huic commento (intelligit commentum Pighii) nos nec possumus nec debemus acquiescere: nam ira Dei non nisi iuste provocatur. Neque enim ea eiusmodi est, ut temere aut fortuito inflammari possit. Quare oportet in natura nostra aliquid esse pravi, ad quod ulciscendum, ira divina excitetur." Alioqui, quomodo mereremur veram & proprie dictam condemnationem, si nullum esset nostrum eiusmodi condemnationis meritum? Est nostrum, inquies, imputatione. Facit ergo, inquam, imputatio ut mereamur poenam aeternam, quam alioqui non meremur.

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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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