On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §336

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC only-mind reductio; lust pleasure; corrupt begets corrupt

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Phantasy too and the sensitive appetite do not know that distinction. But if for a faculty to act for a last end it must know the distinction of the last end from the subordinate ones, then the faculty that tends to a subordinate last end must also have that same distinction known: and so, as I said, no faculty of man except the mind alone will act for an end. The same of universal nature, which the Philosophers are accustomed to prove acts for an end. Nothing therefore is falser than that proposition of the learned man. Further, when a man by mind and will tends to the true last end, all that is his tends the same way and is referred from it; but when he wanders from the true last end, all his faculties wander from that same end. Who does not know how prone lust is to abuse the generative faculty for pleasure? And when that faculty was given by God and destined to the procreation of a like, once universal corruption is set in the begetter, it cannot but be—not by God's fault but by the vice of the corrupt begetter—that it begets the corrupt, just as the generative faculty of a leper begets a leper: for it is determined to that thing not by the author of nature, but by the depravation of him whose faculty it is.

Latin

Phantasia quoque & appetitus sensitivus eam distinctionem non norunt. Quod si ut facultas agat propter finem ultimum, oportet distinctionem finis ultimi a subordinatis illam facultatem nosse, necesse etiam erit ut eandem distinctionem cognitam habeat facultas quae tendit in finem subordinatum ultimum: itaque nulla, ut dixi, hominis facultas, praeter unam mentem aget propter finem. Idem de universa natura, quam propter finem agere, a Philosophis demonstrari solet. Nihil igitur falsius illa viri docti propositione. Porro cum homo mente & voluntate tendit in verum ultimum finem, eodem etiam omnia hominis tendant, & ab eo referuntur: at cum a vero fine ultimo aberrat, ab eodem etiam fine eius omnes aberrant facultates. Quis autem nescit quam libidine proclivis sit ad facultate generandi abutendum ad voluptatem? Et quando illa tributa est a Deo ac destinata ad procreationem similis, posita in generante universali corruptione, fieri non potest quin, non Dei, sed corrupti generantis vitio, generet corruptum, sicut facultas genitrix leprosi generat leprosum: determinatur enim eam ad rem non ab autore naturae, sed a depravatione eius cuius est facultas.

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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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