On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §340

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC moral generative / lust / universal vs particular sins

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PLAC. In what sense the generative faculty is called by me somehow moral, I have already set out—namely by reason of concupiscence or lust, and of destination to procreating a moral subject. It is also plain in what sense I said it was turned to the act of generating as to a last end—namely because lust looks at nothing but pleasure. So far also it is called by me corrupted, insofar as it tends not only to the propagation of man's faculties, but also to propagating corruption, in which it recedes from the purpose for which it was created. That uncleanness being set, it necessarily follows that those born of Adam are stained. But why does the same not happen in other sins? Because other sins did not bring universal corruption into the parents, but proceeded from it, and added nothing except certain particular determinations of that universal corruption toward seeking happiness rather in this thing than in that, in such a pleasure than in some other: and so it ought not to seem strange if universal corruption is propagated, while particular determinations or habits are not.

Latin

PLAC. Quo sensu facultas genitrix a me dicatur aliquatenus moralis, jam exposui, nimirum ratione concupiscentiae seu libidinis, & destinationis ad procreandum morum subjectum. Patet etiam quo sensu dixerim eam conversam fuisse ad actum generandi tanquam ad ultimum finem, nempe quia aliud non spectat libido quam voluptatem: Eatenus etiam corrupta a me dicitur, quatenus non solum ad propagationem facultatum hominis tendit, sed etiam ad propaganda corruptionem, in quo scopo, cuius gratia creata fuit, recedit. Hac immunditie posita necessario sequitur prognatos ex Adamo inquinari. At cur idem non accidit in aliis peccatis? quia alia peccata non induxerunt in parentes universalem corruptionem, sed ex ea profecta sunt, nihilque addiderunt praeter universalis illius corruptionis particulares quasdam determinationes ad quaerendam foelicitatem potius in tali re quam in alia, tali voluptate quam in aliqua alia, itaque mirum videri non debet si corruptio universalis propagatur, non propagantur particulares determinationes seu habitus.

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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