On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §225

Man. Post. Cap. IV: Secunda ratio — hoc fac et vives

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Second proof. The legal covenant's own promise and threat make the same point. Life was pledged under the formula "do this and you will live." Was that the spiritual life grounded in righteousness and holiness? Far from it. The law never promised the start, growth, or continuance of that life; it demanded them. Legal-covenant promises were conditional, and the condition was perfect righteousness kept without break. Life was promised only under that condition—so the thing promised cannot have been identical with righteousness itself already present. And the death the law threatened stood formally over against the promised life, not against the condition. Hence that death was not the absence or stripping-away of righteousness.

Latin

Secunda, Hoc potest illustrari & confirmari promissione & comminatione foederis legalis. Pollicebatur vitam, hoc fac & vives. Quam? spiritualem illam positam in justitia & sanctitate? nihil minus: eius nec initium, nec progressum, nec continuationem lex promittebat, sed exigebat. Promissiones foederis legalis erant conditionales. Conditio erat perfecta justitia perpetuo conservata. Sub hac conditione promittebatur vita. Quare vita promissa non potuit sita esse in praesentia justitiae. Iam autem mors, quam lex comminabatur, opposita erat formaliter non conditioni, sed vitae promissae: non consistebat igitur in absentia seu privatione 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.

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