On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §691

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — second/third: Eve’s pains and nature’s law (Gen 9; Rom 1–2)

Next, it is false that all those penalties were inflicted by God according to the denunciation of some law.

For what denunciation of a law ordered that Eve be struck with the multiplication of the pains of conception and birth, and Adam with this penalty—that in the sweat of his face he should eat bread, and that the earth should bring forth thorns and thistles for him, and the rest?

Third, it is false that no other universal law was set for the human race from Adam to Moses which threatens and denounces penalties to transgressors, besides that which demanded obedience from Adam under an express threat of death.

For—leaving aside the universal law given in Gen. 9 on homicide and on blood—blood—blood—was not the law of nature given to Adam himself and to the whole human race, which the Apostle presses in Romans 1 and 2?

Latin

Deinde falsum est omnes illas poenas secundum alicuius legis denunciationem esse a Deo inflictas. Quae enim legis denunciatio iubebat infligi Evae multiplicationem dolorum conceptus & partus, & Adamo hanc poenam, ut in sudore vultus sui vesceretur pane, & terra proferret illi spinas & tribulos &c.? Tertio falsum est nullam aliam legem universalem generi humano ab Adamo usque ad Mosen positam fuisse, quae poenas transgressoribus minetur ac denunciet, praeter illam quae obedientiam ab Adamo sub diserta mortis comminatione postulavit. Nam ut omittam legem universalem latam Gen. ix. de homicidio, & de sanguine, nonne ipsi Adamo & toti generi humano lata est lex naturae, quam Apostolus urget Rom. i. & 2.?

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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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