On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §438

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: Hypognosticon — God does not punish infant for unlived time

Finely the author of the Hypognosticon Against the Pelagians—whether he is Augustine or another: God, he says, foreknowing its evil works which it was going to do in perfect age, said of his people that it would perish. Is it so, mad Pelagian—is God who is just in all his ways and holy in all his works to be believed, for such a reason, to judge an uncircumcised little child so as to punish him as a doer for crimes not done, to impute some time where life was not lived, where willing and nilling were not of the will? Far be this before a just judge, and so on. See how greatly the pious man abhors that thought—that God imputes to a little child some time where life was not lived, although it could have lived—and how much he judges that not to agree with God's justice.

Latin

Praeclare author Hypognosticon Contra Pelagianos, sive is sit Augustinus, sive alius: Deus, inquit, praescius operum eius malorum, quae facturus erat aetate perfecta, periturum dixit de populo suo. Itane, Pelagiane insane, Deus qui justus est in omnibus viis suis & sanctus in omnibus operibus suis, pro huiusmodi credendus incircumcisum puerulum judicare, ut tanquam factorem pro non factis sceleribus puniat, tempus imputet quoddam ubi vita non vixerit, ubi velle & nolle non fuit voluntatis? Absit hoc apud judicem justum &c. Vide quantopere pius vir ab ista cogitatione abhorreat, Deum puerulo tempus imputare quoddam ubi vita non vixerit, quamvis potuerit vivere; quantumque id existimet non convenire Dei justitiae.

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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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