On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §390

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC — human judgments unsafe; prefer Scripture over example

Even human testimonies, when religion and God's will are in view, do not seem safe enough. If those sentences are unjust, who dared to say they are not unworthy of God? Whether judges' sentences are just or unjust is not mine to decide; those parts belong to God, to whom they will render account of their judgments. Some are compelled by supreme Magistrates, for the republic's preservation, to do things in which they take no delight—but what does that make for the matter between us? Whether such sentences are just or unjust, is it not safer to judge of God's will and sentences from Scripture—the perfect rule of our faith, and the full revelation of God's will toward us—than from some human example?

Latin

Humana etiam testimonia, cum de religione, & voluntate Dei agitur, haud satis tuta videntur. Si injustae, quis ausus fuit eas esse non indignas Deo dicere? De sententiis Judicum anne justae, an injustae, meum non est judicare; Dei hae sunt partes, cui illi rationem judiciorum suorum sunt reddituri. Coguntur nonnulli a supremis Magistratibus conservandae Reipublicae causa nonnulla facere, quibus minime delectantur, sed quid hoc facit ad id de quo inter nos agitur? Sive justae sunt, sive injustae eiusmodi sententiae, annon tutius est de Dei voluntate & sententiis ex Scriptura judicare, perfecta fidei nostrae regula, & plena voluntatis Dei erga nos revelatione, quam ex humano aliquo exemplo?

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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.

Catalogue & scope

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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