On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §711

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — that chain denies innate-corruption reatus (Pighius reef); one warning to a brother

What is it to deny the guiltf inherent vice or innate corruption, if this is not it?

I would think these things had slipped from you, carried off by the imprudent heat of dispute onto the reef of Pighius’s error, did I not see you long stuck and turning in proving and pressing this very point—which, for the love with which I pursue you, I deeply regret has been done by you.

Yet I have no doubt that, once warned, you will at once draw your foot back from this error, which you yourself in Cap. 2 of this treatise of yours have refuted, or at least put yourself forward as refuting.

I certainly would refute it with far more, if I had business with Pelagius, or with Pighius, or with some Papist (though the Papists confess this inherent vice to be sin before baptism, but deny it after baptism).

Now, since my matter is with you—brother, fellow-worker, professing and teaching the Reformed religion—I judge it enough to have warned you even once.

Latin

Quid est negare vitii inhaerentis seu corruptionis innatae reatum, si hoc non est? Putarem tibi ista excidisse imprudenti aestu disputationis abrepto in Pighiani erroris scopulum, nisi te viderem diu haerentem & versantem in hac re probanda, & inculcanda: quod a te factum esse, pro eo quo te prosequor amore, vehementer doleo. Dubium autem mihi non est quin admonitus statim pedem ex hoc errore referas, quem tu ipse Cap. 2. huius tui tractatus refutasti, aut saltem refutare prae te tulisti. Ego certe multo pluribus refutarem si mihi aut cum Pelagio, aut cum Pighio, aut cum Pontificio aliquo (quanquam Pontificii hoc vitium inhaerens ante baptismum peccatum esse confitentur, sed post baptismum negant) negotium esset. Nunc cum sit mihi res tecum, fratre, synamista, religionem reformatam profitente & docente; te vel semel monuisse satis esse puto.

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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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