On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §630

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — bad tree / bird analogies: infants and unfledged birds still have the nature

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So when the Lord says every bad tree bears bad fruit, he would gather poorly who denied that the unregenerate infants of unbelievers are bad trees because they do not yet bear bad fruit. No otherwise than if, reading that every bird flies, he concluded that a chick just hatched, because it does not yet fly, is not a bird.

Latin

Sic cum Dominus dicit omnem arborem malam malos ferre fructus, male colligeret qui infidelium irregenitos infantulos malas arbores esse negaret, quod non ferant malos fructus; haud secus certe ac qui legisset, omnem volucrem volare, male inde concluderet, aviculam recens exclusam, quod nondum volet, volucrem non esse.

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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