On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §123

Cap. X: Fourth ration — habitual voluntariness enough for habitual guilt

Fourth: guilt is said to need more than voluntariness by habitual will; it must also have come from a voluntary act — otherwise that habitual voluntariness would be natural and fit for mercy, not for blame. I say the opposite: that is enough for habitual guilt. Original vice is called voluntary not because it comes from the will, but because it is in the will: the first way makes the act voluntary, the second the habit. That vice is the will's own malice and crookedness, and though natural it is still called evil. The more naturally evil the will, the worse it is, and the more hateful.

Latin

Quarto, non satis est ad culpam, ut aliquid sit voluntarium habituali voluntate, sed requiritur, ut processerit ab actu etiam voluntario; alioqui voluntarium illud voluntate habituali naturale esset, & misericordia, non reprehensione dignum. Immo inquam, id satis est ad culpam habitualem. Non enim vitium originale dicitur voluntarium, quia est a voluntate, sed quia est in voluntate: illo modo voluntarius est actus, isto habitus: Nimirum vitium illud est ipsius voluntatis malitia & pravitas, a qua, licet naturalis sit, mala dicitur. Quo magis autem naturaliter mala est voluntas, eo est pejor, & odio dignior.

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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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