On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §349

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC permission preserves propagation laws; parents sin in act

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This permission, besides those reasons for which God permitted the fall of angels or of Adam, has this as its own: that to hinder it it would have been necessary to rescind and overturn the laws of natural propagation constituted by the decree of creating the world—which decree, because in the order of nature it is prior to the decree of permitting the fall, and also to the decree of repairing the human race through Christ, could not and ought not to have been rescinded by later decrees, as I have already once warned. And the decree of not hindering or of permitting the fall is just, because it in no way fights justice, and it was just and fitting not to hinder the laws of nature: and so, those being preserved, God most wise and good willed to consult men's salvation by another reason which would not overturn nature but preserve it. Add that even in the very act of generation and while conception lasts parents sin and offend God, so that as holy he deservedly deserts them and permits the nature he benignly conserves, nor deigns, for grace toward them or the work they are about, to hinder nature's course and break its laws.

Latin

Haec permissio praeter eas rationes ob quas Deus vel Angelorum vel Adami lapsum permisit hanc habet propriam, quod necesse fuisset ad eam impediendam rescindere atque evertere leges naturalis propagationis decreto de creando mundo constitutas, quod decretum quia naturae ordine prius est decreto de permittendo lapsu, necnon decreto de reparando per Christum genere humano, non potuit nec debuit per posteriora decreta rescindi, ut iam semel monueram. Est autem decretum de non impediendo seu permittendo lapsu justum, quia nullo modo justitiae repugnat, & justum fuit ac consentaneum leges non impedire naturae: Itaque iis conservatis alia ratione hominum saluti Deus sapientissimus & optimus consulere voluit, quae naturam non everteret sed servaret. Adde quod & in ipso generationis actu & conceptione durante parentes peccant, & Deum offendunt, ut jure merito eos quatenus sanctus est deserat & naturam, quam benigne conservat, permittat, nec in eorum vel operis cui incumbunt gratiam dignetur naturae cursum impedire & leges refringere.

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.

Witnesses

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