On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §118

Cap. X: Theologorum auxilium — Whitaker, Chamier, Sixtus, Bellarmine

With that argument laid out, Garissoles calls in the theologians' help and names Whitaker, Chamier, Sixtus of Siena, and Bellarmine. That he praises our writers does not surprise me: that is how this debate usually goes when novelty is the charge to be shaken off. But why the Papists? Why Bellarmine? Did he think their authority would move us? I do not think so. He meant to join Bellarmine's reasons to his own against us. He says Bellarmine comes forward on no contemptible grounds for confirming this opinion — book 5 of On the Loss of Grace and the State of Sin, chapter 18. Very well: let us answer those reasons too, and with the more spirit because, if I understand them, they cut plainly against the doctrine of original sin received in our churches.

Latin

Hac ratione sic proposita Theologorum auxilium sibi adjungit, & Vitakerum, Chamierum, Sixtum Senensem, & Bellarminum nominat. Nostros cur laudet non miror: ita enim in hac causa usuvenit, novitatis suspicionem amoliendi causa: Sed cur Pontificios? cur Bellarminum? Nosne putavit eorum autoritate moveri posse? Non arbitror: Sed suis rationibus conjungere voluit ad nos oppugnandos Bellarmini rationes. Eum enim dicit non contemnendis ad firmandam hanc sententiam rationibus fultum procedere in medium lib. 5. de Amiss. Grat. & Stat. pecc. cap. 18. Age igitur hujus etiam solvamus rationes, eoque majore animo quod si quid intelligo, receptae in Ecclesiis nostris doctrinae de peccato originali non obscure adversantur.

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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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