On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §341

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC false last-end propensity; regen; absolute-right tip

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For that universal corruption is, in our judgment, set in a propensity to a false last end and an aversion from the true end. For the appetite of a last end is necessary, because it is appetited first of all. And so man had to be created with an appetite of the true end, and now must be born with an appetite of a falsely apparent end, if not in act at least in propensity, because of the change of last end induced into our nature by Adam's fall: which change is not made by perjuries, adulteries, and murders, and so those are not propagated. Hence such particular habits or determinations can somehow be corrected and changed, and not rarely we are bent from one vice to the opposite: but that universal corruption cannot be taken from us except by the grace of regeneration. But if this our reply does not please, I would rather at least say that the cause of this discrimination is that God was unwilling to hinder that first sin of Adam from being propagated, but was willing to hinder his other sins and those of other fathers from being propagated also. For this seems better than to invent an antecedent imputation—which nevertheless does not prevent that whole discrimination from being referred to God's will. For the rest, two things not well coherent seem here to be joined, when that imputation of Adam's sin is said to be done by God by his absolute right over creatures, and yet by most just judgment.

Latin

Est enim, nostra quidem sententia, universalis illa corruptio posita in propensione ad falsum finem ultimum, & aversione a vero fine. Est enim appetitus finis ultimi necessarius, quia primo omnium appetitur. itaque creari hominem oportuit cum appetitu veri finis, & nunc nasci necesse est cum appetitu finis falso apparentis, si non actu, saltem propensione, ob inductam in naturam nostram per lapsum Adami finis ultimi mutationem: quae mutatio per perjuria, adulteria, & homicidia non fit, itaque non propagantur. Hinc est quod particulares eiusmodi habitus seu determinationes aliquomodo corrigi & mutari possunt, & non raro ab uno vitio in oppositum flectimur: Sed universalis illa corruptio nisi per gratiam regenerationis auferri a nobis nequit. Quod si haec nostra non placet responsio, malim saltem dicere, huius discriminis hanc esse causam, quod noluerit Deus impedire quominus primum illud Adami peccatum propagaretur, alia vero eius & aliorum patrum peccata, quominus etiam ipsa propagarentur, voluerit impedire. Hoc enim satius videtur quam imputationem antecedentem comminisci, quae tamen non obstat, quin ad Dei voluntatem discrimen illud totum referendum sit. Caeterum hic mihi videntur conjungi duo non satis bene coherentia, cum imputatio illa Adamici peccati fieri a Deo dicitur pro absoluto suo in creaturas iure, & tamen justissimo judicio.

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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