On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §211

Man. Post. Cap. III: Placet Rom 5 — transfusa corruptio; not immediate actual imputation

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I am also very glad you affirm we are clearly taught that this stain and corruption was poured and passed into all people (Rom. 5:12, 14–16, 19). From those verses, cited in Greek and Latin as is your way, you conclude they plainly prove that man's first sin, transfused into all, infected them all and bound them over to death.

If those verses clearly teach that corruption was transfused into all, I contend the same verses cannot by any art prove that Adam's first actual sin is imputed to all his posterity proximately and immediately. God willing, this disputation will make that plain.

Meanwhile, what is that first sin of the first man poured and passed into all, if not the stain and corruption that inheres in each from birth, differing in number from the corruption that was in Adam? His act ceased as soon as it was done, so it could not be poured into us; an imputation made outside us in God's mind is not a transfusion or transmission into us; and Adam's inherent corruption could not migrate, the same in number, from one subject into another. Remember, then: under the name of Adam's first sin you yourself marked hereditary corruption.

Latin

Placet etiam mihi valde, quod hanc labem & corruptionem in omnes homines transfusam & transmissam fuisse clare nos doceri affirmas Rom. 5. 12. 14. 15. 16. 19. quibus versibus graece & latine pro tuo more citatis, concludis haec manifeste probare primum illud hominis peccatum in omnes homines transfusum, transmissum universos infecisse, & morti addixisse. Nam si illis versibus clare docetur in omnes homines transfusa corruptio, contendo ex iisdem illis versibus nulla arte concludi posse, primum Adami peccatum actuale toti ejus posteritati proxime & immediate imputari. Id quod haec nostra disputatio, Deo favente, faciet liquidum. Interim quid est primum illud primi hominis peccatum in omnes homines transfusum & transmissum, nisi inhaerens omnibus ab ipso ortu labes & corruptio ab ea, quae fuit in Adamo, numero differens? nam, neque ejus actio, quae simul ac commissa est esse desiit, in nos transfundi, neque imputatio, extra nos in dei mente facta, transfusio & transmissio in nos dici, neque inhaerens Adamo corruptio de subjecto in subjectum eadem numero migrare potuit. Memineris igitur te primi Adae peccati nomine haereditariam corruptionem insignivisse.

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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