On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §114

Cap. X: Martyr answers — limit, permission, Spirit, regenerating grace

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Ask, then, why parents stained by many kinds of sin do not always pass those stains to their children. I answer with Peter Martyr: God fixed a bound so that evil would not rage without measure, and He held this spread of evil in suspension. Why does disobedient Adam still beget sons rebellious toward God and stubborn by nature? Because God willed to permit the fall — which is to say, not to stop Adam's fall or its onward spread. Why does idolatrous Ahaz fail to beget a Hezekiah in his own likeness? Because the God who had chosen Hezekiah loosed him from his father's idolatry by the Holy Spirit's power. And why do adulterers, drunkards, and robbers not always raise children rushing into the same vices? Either providence, watching over the human race's conservation, blocks those vices from spreading, or regenerating grace later strips away what did spread.

Latin

Quaerenti ergo, unde fit, ut parentes, qui peccatis variis sese commaculant, inquinamenta illa peccatorum suorum non semper transmittant in liberos? Respondeo verbis Petri Martyris, quia Deus modum praefixit, ne malum grassetur in immensum, & hanc mali propagationem suspendit. Cur Adamus inobediens filios generat rebelles Deo, & natura contumaces? Respondeo, quia Deus voluit permittere, hoc est, non impedire lapsum Adami & lapsus propagationem. Cur Achas idololatra non generat Ezechiam sibi similem? Quia Deus, qui Ezechiam elegerat, eum a paterna idololatria Spiritus sancti virtute liberavit. Cur adulteri, ebriosi, praedones, non semper gignunt filios in eadem vitia praecipites? Quia vitia illa, vel non propagantur impediente Dei providentia, quae humani generis conservationi prospicit, vel propagata tolluntur regenerationis gratia.

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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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