On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §329

Man. Post. Cap. VI: Generative faculty corrupted as moral tip

From a faculty so corrupted and acting depravedly a corrupt seed was wrought—that is, agreeable and congruent with the depraved generative faculty, and also with the other faculties which the generative power tries as accurately as possible to sketch and express in the seed. But how this viciousness passes from seed to the rational soul I will explain, God granting, in its place—that is, at the last chapter of your treatise. t we ask of him what he elsewhere asked of us: Whence do you have that? From the Scriptures, or from elsewhere? Or how do you show this is not to be counted among fictions which delight the curious with an empty shade of subtlety? d whence you had it, when I was disputing, of what he said about a certain internal act of the divine mind and will, to be known from nowhere but divine revelation. But here what have I said of that sort which cannot be firmed by Scripture, or by reason, or by experience itself?

Latin

A facultate sic corrupta ac depravate agente elaboratum est semen corruptum, hoc est, consentaneum ac congruens cum depravata facultati generatrici, tum etiam aliis facultatibus quas generatrix semine adumbrare & exprimere quam accuratissime conatur. Quomodo autem haec vitiositas a semine ad animam rationalem transeat; suo loco, hoc est, ad Cap. ultimum tractatus tui Deo dante exponam. GAR. Primum id ab eo quaerimus, quod ipse a nobis alibi, Unde id habes? Ex Scripturisne, an aliunde? aut quomodo demonstras, hoc non esse inter figmenta habendum, quae inani subtilitatis umbra curiosulos delectant? PLAC. Quaesivi unde haberetis, qui cum disputabam, quod dicebat de interno quodam mentis & voluntatis divinae actu, non aliunde quam ex revelatione divina noscendo. Hic vero quid dixi eiusmodi, quod non vel Scriptura, vel ratione, vel experientia ipsa firmari possit?

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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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