On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §113

Cap. X: Placeus — same will explains the discrimination without antecedent imputation

What first strikes me is the learned man's sheer absurdity: he never sees that we, no less than he, may fetch the reason of this discrimination from God's will. The easier reply is ready. Every vice carries a contagion able to spread like plague, poison, or leaven — unless providence or grace from God throws a barrier across its path. On that footing the discrimination is plain. God refused to block the first parent's vice from running on through carnal generation; yet He chose to check other parents' other vices so that natural propagation would not multiply them likewise. Thus in Adam what belongs to sin and nature stands out, and in the rest what belongs to God's providence and grace.

Latin

Primum satis mirari nequeo viri docti ἀτοπίαν, non animadvertentis, nos pariter a Dei voluntate hujus discriminis rationem petere posse. Quid enim facilius quam respondere, ejusmodi esse omnis vitii contagium, ut instar pestis, vel veneni, vel fermenti sese diffundere & propagare possit, nisi Dei vel providentia vel gratia obicem ponat. Discrimen igitur inde procedere, quod primi parentis vitium Deus, quominus per carnalem generationem propagaretur, noluit impedire: Aliorum vero parentum alia vitia, ne similiter propagatione naturali multiplicarentur, inhibere voluit; ut in illo quae peccati & naturae; in his quae Dei providentiae & gratiae vis esset, perspici posset.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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