On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §147

Cap. XII: If Adam's sin is not imputed, why Christ's merits? — Confession XI

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I leave the rest—bare assertions without reason—and add only this, which both looks like an argument and shows how far our accusers leave our public Confession and drift toward Pighianism. If, he says, the first parent's sin is not imputed, why impute Christ's merits? Had he meant original sin or mediate imputation, he would not contradict our cause; he would only say something false and unfit for a theologian, let alone a Christian. We need Christ's righteousness imputed so we may also be justified from our many other sins. But when he means Adam's actual sin and its immediate imputation, who does not see that he denies original sin's guilt, and treats that sin as nothing for condemnation or justification? Sanctification that removes the disease is enough, he adds. Is it then a disease that is not sin, that does not condemn? Set that teaching beside Confession article XI: we believe this vice is truly sin, which makes every human being—even infants still in the womb—liable to eternal death before God. We also affirm that even after baptism it remains truly sin as to blame, though the sons of God are not therefore condemned, because God of free goodness and mercy does not impute it to them. We add that this perversity always bears some fruits of malice and rebellion.

Latin

Caetera praetermitto, nudas sine ratione affirmationes: illud tantum subiungam, quod & speciem aliquam prae se fert argumenti, & quam a publica fidei nostrae Confessione recedant & ad Pighianismum accedant illi qui nos accusant, prodit. Si peccatum, inquit, primi parentis non imputatur, quid opus imputatione meritorum Christi? Si vel peccatum originale intelligeret, vel imputationem mediatam, nihil diceret causae, quam agimus repugnans, diceret tantum aliquid falsum, & Theologo indignum, ne dicam Christiano. Opus enim nobis est imputatione justitiae Christi, ut etiam ab aliis peccatis nostris, quae nimium multa sunt, justificemur: Sed cum peccatum actuale Adami intelligat, illiusque imputationem immediatam, quis non videt ab eo peccati originalis reatum negari? Idque peccatum, quantum ad condemnationem vel justificationem attinet, pro nullo haberi? Sufficit, addit, sanctificatio quae tollat illum morbum. Est-ne igitur, inquam, ita morbus ut non sit peccatum? ut non damnet? Confer quaeso cum hujusmodi hominum doctrina articulum XI. Confessionis fidei; Credimus hoc vitium esse vere peccatum, quod omnes & singulos homines, ne parvulis quidem exceptis adhuc in utero matrum delitescentibus, aeternae mortis reos coram Deo peragit. Affirmamus quoque hoc vitium, etiam post baptismum esse vere peccatum, quod ad culpam attinet, quamvis qui filii Dei sunt, minime idcirco condemnentur, quoniam videlicet Deus pro gratuita sua bonitate & misericordia illud ipsis non imputat. Dicimus praeterea hanc perversitatem semper edere fructus aliquos malitiae & rebellionis, &c.

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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