On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §165

Man. Post. Cap. II: Placeus ὀράματα 3–4 — mediate reasons; peace fails if precise immediate remains; before §III

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Next, he not only wastes labor proving against me what I everywhere affirm, but—worse—tries to draw it from a place where it is not hidden. My words may at first glance seem to favor his inference; yet the explanation that follows at once cuts off every handle, the explanation he himself had shortened at page 33 of his book: because, as truly as Adam's sin passes into us, so truly it is said to be imputed to us. But it passes and has been propagated not as a passing act but as lasting viciousness; not as a person's sin but as nature's sin—what clings to human nature and is multiplied and propagated with it. Third, it is false that all our reasons, if they prove anything, prove that we are in no way guilty for Adam's disobedience: for that they do not touch the mediate imputation of that disobedience I showed so clearly in letters to him that I could get no answer from him by any urging. Fourth, and last, it is false that if Adam's act, taken with the corruption it produced, remains imputed to each of the posterity, peace will be easily made. The whole question will still stand: whether that act, taken precisely, is imputed immediately—that is, so that the corruption of the imputed act is a penalty in the proper sense. That alone I have constantly denied, and wished denied. For the act must be imputed cut off from the corruption that clung in Adam and in us, if corruption is to follow that imputation as its penalty.

Latin

Deinde, non modo perdit operam in eo contra me probando quod passim affirmo, sed, quod deterius est, id inde elicere conatur, ubi non latet. Etsi enim verba mea prima fronte favere videantur ejus collectioni, tamen ei praescindit omnem ansam, quae continuo sequitur explicatio, quam ipse libri sui pag. 33. sic contraxerat, quia, quam vere peccatum Adami in nos transit, tam vere nobis imputari dicitur. Atqui transit et propagatum est, non qua fuit actio transiens, sed qua fuit vitiositas permanens, nec qua fuit peccatum personae, sed qua fuit peccatum naturae, quod scilicet naturae humanae adhaeret, et cum ea multiplicatur atque propagatur. Tertio, falsum est nostras omnes rationes, si quid efficiunt, efficere nos nullo modo esse reos propter inobedientiam Adami: Eas enim imputationem illius inobedientiae mediatam nullo modo impugnare tam clare ostendi datis ad eum literis, ut ab eo responsionem nulla etiam agitatione impetrare potuerim. Quarto denique falsum est id quod ait, si fixum maneat actionem Adami simul cum corruptione quam peperit acceptam unicuique posterorum imputari, pacem facile compositum iri. Restabit enim integra quaestio, utrum illa actio praecise sumpta immediate imputetur, hoc est, ita, ut illius imputatae corruptio sit poena proprie dicta. Id quod unum duntaxat et constanter negavi, et negatum volui. Praecisam enim a corruptione, quae in Adamo et nobis haesit, imputari oportet, si quidem illam imputationem corruptio sequitur ut poena.

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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