On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §282

Man. Post. Cap. VI: Subjungis — prefer ignorance; Isaiah 55

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You subjoin that this compels us to confess that that first sin of Adam was considered in another way, and by God's just judgment imputed and ascribed to the whole human nature. I would rather confess my ignorance; nor would I be ashamed of this confession: for I judge him blind who does not feel that he is ignorant of far more than he knows. How many things there are in nature whose reasons why they happen so we cannot give? Better that, in my judgment, than bursting into God's secret mind and ascribing to Him without any revelation a consideration and judgment which perhaps neither was nor becomes Him. For you know that word of Isaiah 55: my thoughts are not as your thoughts. As the heavens are high above the earth, so high are my thoughts above your thoughts. And that: who has known the mind of the Lord?

Latin

Subjungis hoc cogit nos fateri, primum illud Adami peccatum fuisse alio modo consideratum, & justo Dei judicio imputatum, & adscriptum toti naturae humanae. Mallem fateri meam ignorantiam: neque hujus confessionis me puderet: caecum enim esse arbitror qui non sentit se multo plura quam scit ignorare. Quam multa sunt in natura, quorum rationes cur sic fiant reddere nequimus? Satius mea sententia id esset, quam in Dei arcanam mentem irrumpentes, ei considerationem & judicium sine ulla revelatione tribuere, quod forte nec fuit, nec eum decet. Nosti enim illud Esai. 55. cogitationes meae non sunt ut cogitationes vestrae. Quam alti sunt coeli supra terram, tam altae sunt cogitationes meae supra cogitationes vestras: Et illud, quis novit mentem Domini?

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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