On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §339

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR even granting — still need imputation for posterity

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GAR. But grant that all stand no otherwise than as it pleased the learned man: that the generative power is a moral faculty; that Adam's corruption turned it to generation as a last end; that the whole superior part of the soul with the sensitive appetite—that is, the whole Adam—was turned the same way; that corrupt seed flowed from these. Still all this would not have brought it about that that first corruption should stain those born of Adam, unless something else be added. For the same can happen in others. A man will contaminate himself with perjuries, adulteries, murders, &c., and will contract the worst habits from them; he will turn his generative power, sensitive appetite, and superior part of soul, and himself entire as much as he is, to generation as a last end: yet beyond those things by which he has drawn just condemnation on his own head, he will not by natural propagation derive it into posterity as was done in Adam. Something else therefore must have intervened in that first sin which does not so hold in other sins of fathers. Namely God, who has absolute right over his creatures, willed by most just judgment that that first sin of Adam be imputed to all his posterity: he does not so will other sins to descend upon all posterity.

Latin

GAR. Sed fac omnia haud aliter habere, quam quomodo viro docto libuit: vim generatricem esse facultatem moralem; corruptionem Adami convertisse ad generationem tanquam finem ultimum, eodem conversam fuisse totam partem superiorem animae cum appetitu sensitivo, id est, totum Adamum; ex iis promanasse corruptum semen. Haec omnia tamen non effecerint, ut corruptio illa prima prognatos ex Adamo inquinet, nisi aliud aliquid adjungatur. Nam & idem in aliis accidere potest. Homo se periuriis, adulteriis, homicidiis, &c. contaminabit, & pessimos habitus inde contrahet: vim genitricem suam, appetitum sensitivum, & partem animae superiorem, & se totum, quantus quantus est, ad generationem convertet, tanquam finem ultimum: tamen, ultra sua illa, quibus justam condemnationem in caput suum accersivit, propagatione naturali non derivabit in posteros, sicut Adamo factum. Aliud ergo quippiam intercessisse necesse est in primo illo peccato, quod in aliis patrum peccatis non ita habet. Nimirum Deus, cui ius est absolutum in creaturas suas, primum illud Adami peccatum justissimo judicio imputatum voluit omnibus ipsius posteris: aliorum peccata non ita vult in omnes posteros descendere.

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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