On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §259

Man. Post. Cap. IV: GAR Primura — rationem triplicem / all evils threatened

ring a threefold reason. First: man incurs by his rebellion no other evils and harms than those God had threatened by the sanction of His law. For if God meant to scare him from disobedience and law-breaking, why would He not have set before his eyes the precipices into which violation of the divine law would cast him? Yet by refusing obedience man drew on himself not only bodily death and outward calamities, but also the loss of spiritual gifts, the perversion of every faculty, and guilt of eternal damnation. Therefore God had threatened all of that by His declaration of death.

Latin

GAR. Rationem triplicem producimus. Primum enim. Non alia mala & damna rebellione sua homo incurrit, quam quae interminatus fuerat ei Deus sua legis sanctione; quem enim ab inobedientia & praevaricatione legis absterrere voluit, quidni praecipitia ei posuisset ob oculos, in quae erat suae legis divinae violatione deturbandus? Atqui homo, sua obsequii denegatione, non mortem modo corporalem, & calamitates externas sibi accersivit, verum & omissionem spiritualium donorum, & facultatum omnium perversionem, & damnationis aeternae reatum incurrit. Omnia ergo Deus sua illa mortis declaratione comminatus fuerat.

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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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