On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §426

Man. Post. Cap. VII: Quarto — king implants rebellion then imputes and strips virtues

Fourth, suppose there is some King endowed with such power that he can, if he wishes, inject into his subjects a spirit of rebellion and disobedience. Do you think that if he is wise, if just, if good, he would be so disposed that to those who would otherwise be faithful in that city he would first impute the crime of rebels, then, to punish it, strip them of justice and fidelity and the other virtues, so that thereafter they could not but be themselves rebels and criminals?

Latin

Quarto, fac esse aliquem Regem ea potentia praeditum, ut possit subditis suis, si velit, animum rebellionis & inobedientiae immittere, putasne eum si sapiens, si justus, si bonus sit, ita fore comparatum, ut iis qui alioqui in urbe illa fideles essent, primum imputet rebellium crimen, deinde ut illud puniat eos privet justitia & fidelitate, ac caeteris virtutibus, ut deinceps non possint non esse ipsi rebelles & scelesti?

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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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