On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §382

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC nature vs grace; Spirit roots; apostasy expels habit

The state of nature was mutable, whereas the state of grace is incorruptible. For the principle of the justice or holiness inhering in us is not mutable nature, but the immutable Holy Spirit, an indissoluble union with Christ, a firm purpose according to election; and so sin is from the old man, from the flesh, justice from the new man, from the Spirit: it ought not therefore seem strange if certain sins do not deprive us of the habit of justice—seeing that the roots of that habit are far distant from the roots of sin, and our spiritual life is eternal, and Grace is fitted to heal sin. But what was there in Adam that would hinder his actual apostasy from God from expelling habitual obedience or justice? For the last end being changed, as I said, all morals must of necessity be changed. Which itself is also seen when someone in heart passes either from a false religion to the true, or from the true to a false. How great a change of studies and of the way of living is accustomed to follow?

Latin

Status naturae erat mutabilis, cum status gratiae sit incorruptibilis. Principium enim justitiae, seu sanctitatis nobis inherentis, non est mutabilis natura; sed immutabilis Spiritus Sanctus, unio cum Christo indissolubilis, propositum secundum electionem firmum; itaque peccatum est a vetere homine, a carne, justitia est a novo homine, a Spiritu: non igitur mirum videri debet, si peccata quaedam non privent nos habitu justitiae: quandoquidem illius habitus radices valde distant a radicibus peccati, & vita nostra spiritualis est aeterna, & Gratia comparata est ad medendum peccato. Sed quid erat in Adamo, quod impediret, quominus actualis eius a Deo Apostasia expelleret habitualem obedientiam seu justitiam? Mutato enim, ut dixi, fine ultimo, moralia mutari omnia necesse est. Id quod ipsum etiam cernere est, cum quis corde vel e falsa religione transit ad veram, vel e vera ad falsam. Quanta enim consequi solet studiorum & vivendi rationis commutatio?

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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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