On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §703

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — Adam was under a positive paradise ban, not nature’s law

Yes—Adam indeed was under that law by nature? No: he was not naturally in paradise, nor was that law given naturally, but supernaturally through the word of God.

We are indeed under the law of nature, which both in habit and in act we too much, alas, violate.

But who does not see that that ceremonial and positive law, given by the word of God, fencing the freedom of free choice about a thing by its own nature morally neither good nor evil, and fitting a man not insofar as he was a human or an inhabitant of the world, but only insofar as he was an inhabitant of paradise, was not the law of nature?

Did the learned man think we are naturally in the earthly paradise? that it is lawful for us to eat of the other trees of paradise?

Latin

Imo Adamus quidem fuit sub illa lege. Non fuit enim naturaliter in paradiso, nec lex illa naturaliter lata est, sed supernaturaliter per verbum Dei. Sumus quidem sub lege naturae, quam & habitu, & actu, nimis, proh dolor, violamus. Sed quis non videt legem illam ceremonialem, & positivam, verbo Dei latam, liberi arbitrii libertatem circa rem natura sua moraliter nec bonam nec malam circumscribentem, hominique non quatenus homo fuit, aut mundi incola, sed tantum quatenus incola fuit paradisi, convenientem, non fuisse legem naturae? Putavitne Vir doctus nos naturaliter esse in paradiso terrestri? licere nobis vesci alijs arboribus paradisi?

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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.

Catalogue & scope

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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