Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.
lse is this reason than, as they claim, a begging of the principle?For that is brought forward as argument which is plainly the same as what is in question.And so the major is denied: nor is it proved from what the learned man says has already been demonstrated above—for that has nowhere been demonstrated, nor, as I think, can it be demonstrated.Although if we wish to speak accurately, the propagation of corruption ought to be ascribed not to nature alone, but to its depravation: which by its nature is as contagious as can be.The major can also be distinguished: and conceded if the evil be understood as diverse from Adam's first actual and habitual transgression; otherwise denied.
Latin
PLAC. Quid est aliud haec ratio, quam, ut loquuntur, petitio principii? Affertur enim pro argumento illud quod plane idem est cum eo quod versatur in quaestione. itaque negatur major: nec probatur ex eo quod ait vir doctus iam supra demonstratum esse: id enim nusquam demonstratum est, nec, ut arbitror, potest demonstrari. Quanquam si accurate loqui volumus, propagatio corruptionis non soli naturae, sed eius depravationi debet ascribi: quae natura sua contagiosa est ut quod maxime. Potest etiam major distingui: & concedi si malum intelligatur a prima Adae transgressione actuali & habituali diversum; sin minus, negari.