Chapter 37: On the state following the first, and human free will and its powers in that state
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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN.On the state following the first, and the freedom of the human will, and its powers in this state.
The state into which the human, made after Gods image, falling from the first — God permitting — by his own free will transgressing the law, lost his innocence for himself and for his posterity, and rendered himself and his whole race liable to death.In the preceding chapter we treated the first state of the human, which is followed by this one now to be treated — by far the most miserable and most fertile of evils.
Latin
CAPUT TRICESIMUM SEPTIMUM, De statu hominis primum secuto, et libertate voluntatis humanae, eiusque in hoc statu viribus. STatus quem homo ad imaginem Dei conditus ex primo, Deo permittente, libera sua voluntate legem transgrediens, prolapsus, suam sibi et posteris innocentiam amisit; ac se totumque genus suum morti obnoxium reddidit. Capite antegresso egimus de primo hominis statu, quem sequitur is de quo nunc porro agendum erit, longe miserrimus malorumque feracissimus.