On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §216

Man. Post. Cap. IV: sanctitas not second life; Adam vs Christ; Sed haec obiter

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Just as the body did not have a double life with one part seated in health, so I do not think the soul's sanctity adds to the tally of lives Adam had. I see a great gap between Adam's sanctity and ours in Christ. His was natural, created with human nature, and—had it not been lost—would have been passed on by nature's laws, and so was changeable. Ours hangs on the supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit come down from Christ the head into us his members, by which we are regenerated, made alive, and as it were animated and ruled.

Adam's sanctity was a condition of that animal life of his, as you call it—without which the most just and holy God could not have made him, and by which he was well fitted to natural objects. Ours hangs wholly on supernatural revelation, aims wholly at a supernatural object, and lifts us far above Adam's natural, animal, changeable state. So Peter calls it divine nature, and Paul the image of Christ's glory. But this is by the way; it does not touch the point in hand.

Latin

Itaque quemadmodum in corpore non erat duplex vita, quarum altera posita esset in sanitate, sic non arbitror sanctitatem animae augere numerum vitarum, quibus praeditus fuit Adamus. Magnum enim discrimen observo inter Adami & nostram in Christo sanctitatem. Illa naturalis fuit simul cum natura humana & creata, &, nisi amissa fuisset, propaganda secundum leges naturae, ac propterea mutabilis: haec vero pendet ex dono supernaturali Spiritus Sancti a Christo capite in nos eius membra delapso, quo regeneramur, vivificamur, & veluti animamur ac regimur. Sanctitas Adami conditio erat eius vitae Adami, quam animalem appellas, sine qua creari non potuit a Deo justissimo sanctissimoque, & qua fiebat ut Adamus esset bene comparatus ad objecta naturalia. Nostra tota pendet a revelatione supernaturali, tota tendit in objectum supernaturale, nosque supra conditionem illam naturalem & animalem & mutabilem Adami longe evehit. Itaque natura divina a Petro appellatur, & imago gloriae Christi a Paulo. Sed haec obiter: nihil enim faciunt ad rem quam agimus.

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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