On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §80

Cap. VIII: Alien righteousness saves; alien guilt does not damn

But if someone objects that the faithful are saved on account of a righteousness not their own but Christ's, and that therefore they can also be damned on account of an alien injustice, he truly does not see that very different things are being compared. For damnation is from justice, but salvation is from grace. For if salvation itself were also from justice, an alien righteousness could not save us; so neither can an alien guilt damn. Nothing, I think, could have been wanted more expressly.

Latin

Quod si excipiat quis, servari fideles propter justitiam non suam, sed Christi: itaque posse etiam damnari, propter alienam injustitiam, is vero non videt comparari valde diversa. Nam damnatio est a justitia, salus autem a gratia. Nam si esset etiam ipsa a justitia, non posset nos aliena justitia servare: quare ne aliena quidem culpa damnare. Nihil, opinor, desiderari potuit disertius.

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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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