On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §243

Man. Post. Cap. IV: Quinta close; GAR misnames tertia; Resp. 1

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If then God in supreme mercy and wisdom deferred executing that threat, hanging it on another judgment after soul and body part, we must grant Adam was not Dead as the law's threat required. So the threat of spiritual death as privation of righteousness is not to be read as I take that threat—which I judge a worse evil than eternal death itself.

Garissoles. A "third" reason is added. If the law threatened Adam with death as privation of righteousness, he would have died as God threatened—which is false, since he is not to be counted among the damned. And since that death covers eternal, bodily, and spiritual: he who never felt eternal death, nor at once felt temporal, how did he at once incur spiritual death—privation of righteousness? Reply 1. Whoever dies the death of privation of righteousness and stays in it to the end is counted among the damned. Not so Adam: by faith in the blessed seed he was raised from that spiritual death into spiritual life, as with all the elect whom God is pleased to make alive in Christ when dead in sins (Eph. 2).

Latin

Si igitur Deus pro summa sua misericordia & sapientia comminationis illius executionem distulit, ac suspendit ex alio judicio post separationem animae a corpore futuro, fatendum est Adamum non fuisse, prout ferebat legis comminatio, Mortuum. Itaque comminationem illam de spirituali morte posita in privatione justitiae non esse intelligendam, quam ego arbitror ipsa morte aeterna deterius malum esse. GAR. Additur & tertia ratio. Si lex Adamo mortem sitam in privatione justitiae comminabatur, Adamus, prout Deus comminatus erat, mortuus fuerit, quod falsum; cum inter damnatos non sit computandus. Item, cum mors illa aeternam, corporalem, & spiritualem complectatur, qui nunquam sensit aeternam, nec statim sensit temporalem, quomodo spiritualem, nempe privationem justitiae, statim incurrisset? Respond. 1. Qui mortuus est morte sita in privatione justitiae, si in ea perseveret, usque ad finem, inter damnatos computandus est. At non ita factum Adamo, qui fide in semen benedictum ex illa morte spirituali in vitam spiritualem excitatus est, ut fit omnibus electis, quos mortuos in peccatis placet Deo vivificare in Christo, Ephes. 2.

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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