On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §366

Man. Post. Cap. VII: Examen — three similitudes; first from the courtier

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CAPUT VII. Examination of three similitudes by which the imputation of Adam's first actual sin is illustrated in the same Cap. IV. You at length try to illustrate your infamous imputation by certain similitudes, and to smear it with a certain paint of probability, which it is my mind to weigh and to show how little they favor it. The first you take from a courtier friend of the King who, guilty of unfaithfulness and lese-majesty, is deprived of titles, dignities, and estates which he had acquired for himself and his. For is it not true, you ask, that he could have kept all these for himself and his posterity, provided he were faithful? Therefore the unfaithfulness either of the father or of the grandfather harmed the whole family. And if the posterity are considered stripped of those goods and made infamous, is not that delict said to be the cause of the lost goods and of the infamy, and imputed to the whole family? for just as he had received for himself and the whole family under a condition, so in sinning against the condition the whole family sinned and fell in him.

Latin

CAPUT VII. Examen trium similitudinum, quibus imputatio primi peccati actualis Adami illustratur eodem Cap. IV. Tu tandem infamem tuam imputationem illustrare quibusdam similitudinibus, ac quodam probabilitatis fuco oblinire niteris, quas expendere est animus, & ostendere quam ei non faveant. Primam sumis ab aulico Regis amico, qui infidelitatis & laesae-majestatis reus privatur titulis, dignitatibus, & fundis, quos sibi & suis acquisiverat. Nunquid enim, inquis, verum est potuisse sibi & posteris haec omnia servare, modo fidelis sit? Infidelitas ergo sive patris, sive avi, toti familiae obfuit. Et, si posteri considerentur illis bonis exuti, & infames facti, nonne dicitur delictum illius causa esse bonorum perditorum, & infamiae, & toti familiae imputatum? nam sicut sibi toti familiae acceperat sub conditione, sic in conditionem peccans tota familia in illo peccavit & cecidit.

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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