On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §116

Cap. X: Against Hosea — imputation follows; God not author of perdition

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There is more. If the true, solid, and only cause of that difference is God's will — pleased to charge Adam's first sin to us all, yet not pleased to charge Adam's later sins or the sins of other parents — then we must confess what conscience most fiercely flees: that the true, solid, and only cause of our being sinners and lost is God's will. That runs against the oracle, From you is your destruction, O Israel. I do admit that, where original vice propagates, an imputation hangs together with it unless mercy from God steps in; yet that imputation comes after the propagation, never before it, and never as its cause. But to plant an imputation that makes Adam's actual sin ours, that makes us sinners and debtors to eternal death, that is then treated as the cause of sin's spread, and whose only cause is said to be God's will — if that is not to cast God as the author of our perdition, what is?

Latin

Adde quod, si rei illius vera & solida, & unica causa est Dei voluntas, cui sic libuit nobis omnibus primum Adami peccatum imputare; nec libuit aut sequentia Adami, aut aliorum parentum peccata imputare, fatendum est (id quod vehementissime refugit conscientia) veram & solidam & unicam causam cur simus peccatores & perditi, Dei voluntatem esse, contra oraculum, Ex te perditio tua, o Israel. Fateor equidem cum propagatione vitii originalis imputationem, nisi Dei misericordia intercedat, cohaerere, sed ea imputatio sequitur propagationem, non antecedit, nec est ullo modo propagationis causa. At ponere imputationem, qua peccatum actuale Adami nostrum fiat, qua fiamus peccatores & rei mortis aeternae, quae sit causa propagationis peccati, & hujus imputationis unicam esse causam Dei voluntatem, quid est facere Deum perditionis nostrae autorem, si hoc non est?

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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