On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §312

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR erotema 5 — first generative act; Cain/Seth tip

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GAR. Fifth it is asked. If the first act of sinning was an act of nature, why not also the first act of generating, so that in Adam we should be said to have been begotten as Cain, or as Seth? Reply. I pass over the learned man's paralogism, which ascribes Seth's begetting to the first act by which Adam generated, though that could only have been the third, Gen. 4. PLAC. What, I ask, is this paralogism? I fear it rather belongs to the Learned Man, who does not seem to have noticed the force of the disjunction I had used; namely there was a twofold act of Adam's generating: one absolutely first, the other first in the kind of those from whom we spring.

Latin

GAR. Quinto quaeritur. Si primus actus peccandi fuit actus naturae, cur non & primus actus generandi, ut in Adamo dicamur Cainum, aut Sethum genitos esse? Resp. Mitto viri docti paralogismum, Sethi genituram primo actui, quo Adamus generavit, attribuenti, qui tamen nonnisi tertius esse potuit, Gen. 4. PLAC. Quale, quaeso, est hoc paralogismum? Vereor ne id potius Viro docto tribui debeat, qui animadvertisse non videtur vim disjunctionis qua usus fueram; nempe duplex fuit actus generandi Adami, unus absolute primus, alter primus in genere eorum unde orti sumus.

About this text

Josue de la Place (Placeus) — Capita I–XIV partial of De imputatione primi peccati Adami from the 1661 Saumur Latin, through Man. Post. Caput X (GAR.1–3 Rom. 5.13 tip) / before PLAC on reatus-only. Honest partial; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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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