On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §296

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Ad 6 — Christ vs Adam; vitium inherent

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To the sixth: Why is Christ called our righteousness and sanctification, and Adam not called our sin and corruption? Because we are justified by no other righteousness, sanctified by no other power, than Christ's. Therefore in Him all our righteousness and sanctification is to be sought. We cannot similarly say that we are damned by no sin but Adam's. For we are guilty of many others too, and to the universal corruption which we drew from Adam we too often add many habits, or particular determinations to certain objects; and that very sin of Adam is not ours by gift, or by imputation as Christ's righteousness is, but by reason of the vice propagated from it and inherent in us, which has power to condemn us not because it is Adam's, or flowed from Adam, but because by its nature it is a vice opposed to God's law. I have answered his little questions for Pelagius and Socinus: now let us see how he answers ours.

Latin

Ad 6. Cur Christus justitia & sanctificatio nostra dicitur, Adamus non dicitur peccatum & corruptio nostra? Quia nulla alia justitia justificamur, nulla alia virtute sanctificamur, quam Christi. Itaque in eo omnis nostra justitia & sanctificatio quaerenda. Non possumus similiter dicere, nullo nos peccato damnari, quam Adami. Nam & multorum aliorum sumus rei, & ad universalem corruptionem, quam ab Adamo traximus, multos habitus, seu particulares ad certa objecta determinationes nimis saepe adjungimus, & illud ipsum Adami peccatum non est nostrum donatione, aut imputatione ut Christi justitia, sed ratione propagati ex eo vitii nobis inhaerentis, quod vim habet nos condemnandi, non quia est Adami, aut profluxit ab Adamo, sed quia natura sua vitium est legi Dei repugnans. Ejus pro Pelagio & Socino quaestiunculis respondi: nunc videamus quomodo respondeat nostris.

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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