On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §480

Man. Post. Cap. IX: speak distinctly — one original or two? Pighius vs churches

Speak, I beg and ask you, more distinctly and more clearly: for nothing so hinders the investigation of truth as either ambiguity of speech, or the inconstancy and slipperiness of speech of the one with whom you have to do. If, as some do, you believe two original sins, one imputed, the other inhering in us, why nowhere do you say that openly? If you believe only one, say constantly, either with Pighius that it is Adam's actual sin imputed to us all, or with the confession of faith of our Churches that it is hereditary corruption, or inhering vice: and do not mix or crush those two which according to your opinion stand a maximum interval apart from each other.

Latin

Loquere, te rogo & quaeso, distinctius & magis enucleate: nihil enim adeo veritatis indagationi officit, ac vel ambiguitas orationis, vel ejus cui tecum res est inconstantia & lubricitas sermonis. Si, quod nonnulli faciunt, duo credis peccata originalia, unum imputatum, alterum nobis inhaerens, cur nullo loco id dicis aperte? Si non nisi unum credis, dic constanter, aut cum Pighio id esse peccatum actuale Adami nobis omnibus imputatum, aut cum fidei confessione nostrarum Ecclesiarum corruptionem haereditariam, seu vitium inhaerens: nec duo ista permisce aut contunde, quae secundum tuam sententiam maximo intervallo inter se distant.

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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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