On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §241

Man. Post. Cap. IV: Quinta — non mortuus prout minatus

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Fifth proof (I put the rest off for another place). If the law threatened Adam with death as privation of righteousness, then—on your view—Adam died just as God had threatened. That looks false to me. First, you yourself, I take it, grant that Adam's first sin was forgiven; otherwise he would be counted among the damned. So he did not die just as God had threatened. Forgiveness of sin and punishment according to the law cannot both stand.

Second, by the death named in the threat you mean bodily death and eternal death as well as spiritual. Truth and justice in the threat would then require that on the very day he broke the law he die bodily, eternally, and spiritually. Yet that day he suffered neither bodily nor eternal death, and eternal death he never underwent and never will. Why could spiritual death's penalty not be forgiven Adam as eternal death's was—or at least deferred?

Latin

Quinta denique ratio, (caeteras enim differre, & in alium locum conferre satius erit.) Si lex Adamo mortem sitam in privatione justitiae comminabatur, Adamus (ut tu asseris) prout Deus minatus fuerat, Mortuus est. Id autem mihi falsum videtur. Nam primo, Tu, opinor, fateris Adamo condonatum fuisse primum illud peccatum, numerando alioquin inter damnatos: non igitur, prout Deus minatus fuerat, mortuus est. Pugnant enim haec duo, condonari peccatum & puniri secundum legem. Deinde, Tu per mortem denunciatam comminatione tam mortem corporis & aeternam intelligis, quam spiritualem illam. Pertinebat igitur aeque ad veritatem comminationis & justitiam, ut, quo die legem violavit, eodem tam corporea & aeterna morte, quam spirituali moreretur. Tamen eodem die neutram passus est, aeternam autem nunquam subiit, aut subibit. Cur non potuit Adamo mortis spiritualis aeque ac aeternae poena condonari? aut saltem differri?

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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