On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §334

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC generative alone for propagation; false ends many

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PLAC. And that corruption is universal, and infected the other faculties too, but for the purpose only the generative one mattered, because the matter was the propagation of man, through which that corruption is propagated. But neither, as I already noted, are concoction and nutrition, like the act of generating, infected with lust, and the generative faculty tries to propagate the other faculties as they are. Meanwhile it is certain the concoctive and nutritive do not perform their functions as perfectly after sin was committed as before: and so all men from infancy are liable to various diseases and death; yet concoction and nutrition are not last ends, but only subordinate to the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species. The true last end can be only one, namely God. But a false last end is one only in genus, and multiple in species and number; for either pleasure is sought, or utility, or honor, and of these also, for the various things in which they are sought, there is a great variety.

Latin

PLAC. Et universalis est illa corruptio, & alias etiam facultates infecit, sed ad propositum sola generans faciebat, quia de propagatione hominis, per quam propagatur illa corruptio, agebatur. Sed neque, ut jam monui, concoctio & nutritio sunt, ut actus generandi, infecti libidine, & facultas generandi caeteras facultates conatur quales sunt, propagare. Interim certum est non tam perfecte suas obire functiones concoctricem & altricem post peccatum admissum quam ante: itaque morbis variis & morti, etiam ab infantia omnes sunt obnoxii homines, nec tamen concoctio aut nutritio sunt ultimi fines, sed subordinati tantum conservationi individui & propagationi speciei. Finis ultimus verus non potest esse nisi unus, nimirum Deus. Sed finis ultimus falsus genere tantum unus est, specie autem & numero multiplex; vel enim voluptas quaeritur, vel utilitas, vel honor, horumque etiam pro variis rebus in quibus quaeruntur, magna est varietas.

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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