On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §476

Man. Post. Cap. IX: truth needs no art; commentary confuses the status

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If room is to be given to conjecture, you wished by that means to occupy and fortify the minds of readers, lest they be wounded by the stings of my replies and reasons. In which, if this was your counsel, you seem to me to have distrusted and hurt your cause. For truth does not desire an art of this kind; simple, open, ingenuous, candid, even when it is humble, it breathes something noble, where (in which it is stronger than every thing) and trusting the God of truth it then most rejoices and shines and gleams, when it is compared with its contrary, however painted. But that, whether it was done by you with that counsel or another, disturbs our dispute, and scatters it, and forces much to be repeated.

Latin

Si conjecturae locus dandus est, ea ratione animos lectorum occupare voluisti ac praemunire, ne mearum responsionum & rationum aculeis laederentur. In quo, si hoc tuum consilium fuit, videris mihi causae tuae diffidisse ac obfuisse. Veritas enim artem hujusmodi non desiderat; simplex, aperta, ingenua, candida, humilis etiam cum sit, generosum quid spirat, ubi (qua omni re fortior est) & Deo veritatis fidens tum maxime laetatur & splendet & fulget, cum suo contrario, ut ut fucato, comparatur. Id autem, sive isto sive alio consilio a te sit factum, nostram disputationem conturbat, & distrahit, & multa cogit repetere.

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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