On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §338

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC coitus-pleasure = generation; carnal desire false happiness

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PLAC. The learned man seems to me to play with these words and what follows, rather than to argue in earnest. For is not that fallacious species of happiness sought in many things? But why did I not rather say pleasure than generation? Namely because by the pleasure of coitus it seemed honest to signify that which I marvel either that the learned man did not notice, or, if he noticed, that he dissembled. For what, I ask, is the aim of carnal concupiscence and lust? the glory of God? the edification of the neighbor? Certainly it follows nothing but a fallacious shade of happiness and pleasure—which is plain in those who loosen the reins to such concupiscences: for they seek nothing else than to obtain what they desire and to satisfy lust. And so what the learned man adds does not seem to me to need any reply.

Latin

PLAC. Ludere mihi potius videtur vir doctus his verbis, & sequentibus, quam serio argumentari. Nonne enim fallax illa felicitatis species multis in rebus quaeritur? At cur non potius voluptatem dixi quam generationem? nempe quia coitus voluptatem sic visum est honeste significare id quod miror aut non animadvertisse virum doctum, aut, si animadvertit, dissimulasse. Quis enim quaeso concupiscentiae carnalis & libidinis est scopus? gloria Dei? aedificatio proximi? certe nihil nisi fallacem sequitur felicitatis & voluptatis umbram. id quod in iis cernere est qui huiusmodi concupiscentiis laxant fraena: aliud enim nihil quaerunt quam cupitis potiri, & libidinem explere. Itaque quae vir doctus subiungit, non videntur mihi ulla egere responsione.

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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