On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §302

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR erotema 2 — why Adam to posterity, not reverse

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GAR. It is asked second: Why is Adam's sin rather imputed to posterity than posterity's to Adam? Reply 1. This is because all posterity were in Adam radically and seminarily. Adam was not in posterity in this way. 2. That to impute sin is to inflict penalty on account of sin. But penalty always follows sin in the order of nature, never precedes it. Therefore Adam could not pay penalties for sins that did not yet exist, especially since not he, but Christ, ought to bear the sins of men, and by bearing to expiate them.

Latin

GAR. Quaeritur secundo, Cur potius Adami peccatum posteris, quam posterorum Adamo imputatur? Resp. 1. Hoc inde esse, quod posteri omnes in Adamo radicaliter & seminaliter fuerunt. Adamus in posteris hoc modo non fuit. 2. Quod peccatum imputari, est poenam propter peccatum irrogari. Atqui poena peccatum ordine naturae semper insequitur, nunquam antecedit. Non potuit igitur Adamus poenas dare peccatorum, quae nondum erant, praesertim cum non ipse, sed Christus peccata hominum portare debuerit, & portando expiare.

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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