On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §344

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR major — not nature alone; prior sin must be Adam's

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Of the minor no one doubts. The truth of the major is also certain. For since it has already been demonstrated above that that moral corruption descending into all from Adam cannot be ascribed to nature alone, no one can give a cause why recourse should not be had to the singular counsel and judgment of God: But whatever evil is from God as just judge is without doubt for the punishment of some preceding sin. Yet in the posterity themselves first conceived or being born there is no other sin that precedes that original stain. One must therefore come to Adam's own sin, on account of which God willed that evil to descend into posterity.

Latin

De minore nemo dubitat. Maioris veritas etiam certa est. Nam cum jam supra demonstratum sit, eam corruptionem moralem in omnes ex Adamo descendentem non posse soli naturae adscribi, nemo causam dicere potest, cur non ad singulare Dei consilium atque judicium confugiendum sit: Quod autem malum est a Deo tanquam justo judice, est sine dubio in poenam alicuius peccati praecedentis. At in ipsis posteris primulum conceptis aut nascentibus non est aliud peccatum, quod praecedat eam labem originalem. Deveniendum est igitur ad ipsius Adae peccatum, propter quod Deus illud malum in posteros descendere voluerit.

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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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