Bellarmine denies such a man would be in the devil's power; Tapper says he could suffer every evil, even damnation, as punishment-free torment
In the same place, however, Bellarmine denies that a man so created in a purely natural state would for that reason be in the devil's power. Here he parts from Ruard Tapper.
Tapper holds that God can create man without original righteousness, and that such a man would then not only suffer the weaknesses already named, difficulty and ignorance, but would also be afflicted with every evil we experience, even damnation and harassment by demons.
"Man could be created without original righteousness," he says, "and be afflicted with all the evils we now experience: diseases, damnation, harassment by demons and all the rest. In him, though, they would not be punishments and penalties, only torments, as they are in the beasts." So Tapper writes in his explanation of the second article of the Louvain faculty, page 72, where he deals with original sin.
Latin
XXIII. Caeterum negat ibidem Bellarminus, Hominem sic in puris naturalibus creatum, propterea futurum esse in diaboli potestate. Qua in re a sententia Ruardi Tapperi recedit. Is enim affirmat hominem posse a Deo creari sine Originali justitia. Et tunc non solum in eo locum habituras jam dictas infirmitates, difficultatem, & ignorantiam; sed etiam illum affligendum fore omnibus iis quae experimur malis, etiam damnatione, & daemonum vexatione. Nam, inquit, creari posset homo sine justitia Originali, & omnibus malis quae nunc experimur, affligeretur, morbis scilicet, damnatione, daemonum vexatione, & universis aliis, quae tamen in eo non essent supplicia & poenae sed cruciatus tantum, sicut sunt in bestiis. In explicatione secundi articuli facultatis Lovaniensis, pag. 72. ubi agit de peccato Originali.