On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §115

Cap. X: One word — water does not stick; Garissoles begs the question

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Hence the ancient vice spreads because God refused to stop it; the newer ones do not, because God chose to stop them. One word sums it: He permitted Adam's fall to propagate, not other sins. Fairest reader, you already see that we are not stuck for an answer. Another account of the same discrimination — drawn from the nature of Adam's first sin itself — Placeus had already given in the Theses and again in a later Manuscript; God willing, it will be cleared in its place from D. Garissoles's exceptions. What matters now is only this: the very reason Garissoles offers for the discrimination serves propagation no less than imputation, and our cause is the stronger. Our reply denies nothing agreed between us — that original sin does propagate, that other vices do not always, and that nothing occurs with God wholly unaware and unwilling. His reply, by contrast, quietly assumes the antecedent imputation we deny and that he was bound to prove, and it lays on God a will to impute Adam's first actual sin that neither nature nor Scripture has ever disclosed. That does not look free of sin.

Latin

Itaque vitium tam vetus propagatur, quia Deus noluit quominus propagaretur impedire: non propagantur recentiora, quia Deus voluit ne propagarentur impedire. Uno verbo, voluit permittere propagationem lapsus Adami, non aliorum peccatorum. Vides, opinor jam aequissime Lector, nobis aquam nullo modo haerere. Aliam ejusmodi discriminis rationem Placeus cum in Thesibus, tum in Manuscripto posteriore reddiderat ab ipsa primi Adae peccati natura petitam, quae suo loco ab exceptionibus D. Garissolii Deo dante vindicabitur. Nunc enim mihi satis est ostendisse, quam ipse hujus discriminis rationem reddit, eam, non minus propagationi quam imputationi applicari posse: Estque nostra quam eius causa melior. Nihil enim sic respondendo dicimus quod possit negari. Convenit enim inter nos propagari peccatum originale, non perpetuo propagari alia vitia, nihilque fieri posse Deo prorsus inscio & invito. Ille vero sic respondendo, supponit imputationem antecedentem, quam nos negamus, & probare debebat, Deoque voluntatem sic imputandi primi Adae peccati actualis tribuit: quam tamen voluntatem Deus neque per naturam, neque per Scripturam patefecit. Id quod peccato vacare non videtur.

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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