On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §453

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: Bellarmine — by what right? imputation alone makes common

For by what right, as Bellarmine says somewhere (with whom this cause is common with you), is what is not mine imputed to me? What is this justice—by imputing to make common to all a sin which otherwise is not common to all, and therefore to punish all humans so severely? That first sin, you say, is not common to all except by imputation, because namely it is imputed to all. Therefore, I say, before it is imputed to all, it is not common to all. What therefore is common to all must be credited to that imputation alone, which namely is God's judicial act.

Latin

Quo enim jure, ut ait alicubi Bellarminus (cui tecum haec causa est communis) mihi imputatur, quod meum non est? quae haec justitia, peccatum quod alioqui omnium commune non est, imputando omnibus commune facere, ac propterea omnes homines tam severe punire? Non est, inquis, primum illud peccatum commune omnibus, nisi imputatione, quia scilicet omnibus imputatur. Ergo inquam, antequam imputetur omnibus, commune non est omnibus. Quod igitur commune est omnibus, id soli isti imputationi, quae scilicet actio Dei est judiciaria, imputandum est.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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