On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §162

Man. Post. Cap. II: four modes of Adam's first sin; Charenton / Walaeus; Calvin quia intra nos

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1. For the act by which he broke God's law—the first actual sin. 2. For that same act not taken by itself, but together with the habitual corruption it produced: the two stand as heating to heat, act to habit, actual change to habitual change. So both together sometimes share the one name 'Adam's sin' or 'the first sin.' 3. For the corruption that actual disobedience bred in Adam—his first habitual sin. 4. For that same corruption as transmitted and propagated into us, which is our sin because it inheres in us, affects us, and names us; yet it is called Adam's as of the author, the first as it were possessor, the fountain from which it flowed to us. If Adam's first sin is taken in this last sense, I say it is imputed to all Adam's posterity (Christ alone excepted, in whom it had no place) until they are justified from it through Christ; and I judge rightly condemned by the Synod of Charenton the opinion of those who profess to acknowledge this sin yet deny that it is imputed to anyone, however unbelieving—for that some in this age teach so in print, the learned Walaeus testified and mourned shortly before his death in a letter. Likewise if it is taken in the third sense, I grant that it is imputed to us—not as it clung in Adam, but as it passes into us, and, in Calvin's words, because it is within us: for our hereditary corruption is the same in kind as that which once was in Adam; and Adam shared with us his nature and his moral corruption alike.

Latin

1. pro actione qua dei legem est transgressus, quae primum fuit peccatum actuale. 2. pro eadem illa actione non praecise accepta, sed simul cum habituali corruptione quam peperit: habent enim se haec duo velut calefactio et calor, actus et habitus, mutatio actualis et mutatio habitualis. Itaque utrumque conjunctim idem nomen peccati Adami, vel primi peccati nonnunquam complectitur. 3. pro corruptione, quam actualis inobedientia genuit in Adamo, quaeque fuit ejus primum peccatum habituale. 4. denique pro eadem illa corruptione in nos transmissa et propagata, quae nostrum quidem peccatum est, quia nobis inhaeret, nos afficit, et denominat; dicitur tamen peccatum Adami ut authoris, ut primi veluti possessoris, ut fontis unde ad nos defluxit. Si hoc ultimo modo sumatur primum Adami peccatum, aio illud omnibus Adami posteris (uno, in quo locum nullum habuit, Christo excepto) imputari, donec ab eo per Christum justificentur, eorumque sententiam jure damnatam a Synodo Carentonensi arbitror, qui hoc quidem peccatum agnoscere se profitentur, nulli tamen imputari, quantumvis infideli: esse enim hoc saeculo qui id doceant editis libris testatur et deplorat paulo ante obitum suum in quadam Epistola doctissimus Walaeus. Similiter si tertio modo sumatur, fateor nobis imputari, non tamen qua haesit in Adamo, sed qua in nos transit, ac, ut verbis utar Calvini, quia intra nos est: est enim nostra corruptio haereditaria eadem specie cum illa, quae olim fuit in Adamo; ac quam suam naturam, tam suam corruptionem moralem nobiscum Adamus communicavit.

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.

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