On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §79

Cap. VIII: Chamier — alien guilt alone does not damn infants

I took this from Chamier. "If infants," he says, "have nothing of their own sin, why do they perish by their own death? For divine justice does not bear an alien fault that is only alien. Men may once have had the custom that a father's slavery was hereditary for the sons; but nothing of that sort existed among God's people under divine lawh less in God, who is angry at those who had in their mouth the proverb, Our fathers ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge" (Ezekiel 18:2).

Latin

Hoc accepi a Chamiero, Si nihil, inquit, habent infantes peccati proprii, cur propria morte pereunt? Nam propter alienam culpam, quae tantum aliena sit, non fert justitia divina. Habuerint sane aliquando homines eum morem, ut patris servitus, filiis esset hereditaria: at ejusmodi nihil erat in populo Dei, ex divinis legibus: quanto minus in Deo: qui irascitur in eos, quibus erat in ore proverbium, Patres nostri uvas acerbas comederunt: Filiis autem dentes stupent;

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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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