On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §218

Man. Post. Cap. IV: morte morieris — refuse spiritual death; Prima ratio; before GAR

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Against this threefold life you set a threefold privation or death, denounced by God to Adam as penalty in the words "you shall die the death," and you claim that man was dead just as God had threatened. For my part (with leave of you and of those who think with you) I cannot shift those words onto spiritual death—the loss of justice and sanctity. Hear my reasons, if you will, and weigh them; unless I am mistaken, they are not empty.

First reason. A threat answers a tacit promise, penalty answers reward, the death denounced answers the life promised. But the life tacitly promised to Adam was not justice or sanctity—unless you confuse the condition of the promise with the thing promised. Therefore the death denounced was not the privation of justice.

Latin

Huic triplici vitae triplicem opponis privationem seu mortem denunciatam a Deo Adamo ut poenam verbis, morte morieris, asserisque hominem, prout Deus minatus fuerat, mortuum esse. Ego vero (pace tua & aliorum, qui sic tecum sentiunt,) non possum verba illa morte morieris ad mortem spiritualem seu privationem justitiae & sanctitatis transferre. Audi, si placet, rationes meas, & expende: nam, nisi me fallit animus, non sunt de nihilo. Prima ratio. Comminatio opponitur tacite promissioni, poena praemio, mors denunciata vitae promissae. Atqui vita tacite promissa Adamo non erat justitia seu sanctitas, nisi velis promissionis conditionem cum re promissa confundere. Ergo mors denunciata non erat privatio justitiae.

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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