On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §459

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: poison-spread vs imputation — imputation is God's work

But he is not the cause of a common evil unless either he himself breathed that evil into all, or at least produced in one such an evil as of itself, by its own natural force, spread and propagated itself into all like poison, like a plague. Imputation, the infliction of penalty, is God's work, not the ancient serpent's.

Latin

Non est autem causa mali communis, nisi aut illud ipse omnibus inspiraverit, aut saltem tale malum in uno produxerit, quod sponte, per se, naturali vi sua sese in omnes ut venenum, ut pestis, diffuderit, & propagaverit. Imputatio, inflictio poenae Dei opus est, non serpentis antiqui.

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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.: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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