On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §315

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC being before sinning; generative presupposed

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For if sinning follows being, as it certainly ought (for of what is not there are no accidents), the act of generating is that by whose force we first are; this ought to seem to follow, and in it to be founded that act by whose force we first are sinners; at least this does not make us sinners except by means of that: and so it presupposes it: for to sin presupposes to be, and prior in the order of nature is that we become than that we become sinners. If therefore we were sinners by imputation of another's sin which becomes ours, that imputation ought to follow something by which we were humans, seeing that in nature's order we are humans before we are sinners, and the subject is prior to its accident.

Latin

Nam si peccare sequitur esse, ut certe debet (non entis enim non sunt accidentia) actus generandi is est cuius vi primum sumus, hunc sequi debere videtur, & in eo fundari is actus cuius vi primum peccatores sumus; saltem hic nos non facit peccatores, nisi illo mediante: itaque illum praesupponit: peccare enim praesupponit esse, & prius est naturae ordine nos fieri, quam fieri peccatores. Si ergo fuimus peccatores imputatione alieni peccati quae fit nostrum, ea imputatio sequi debet aliquid quo fuimus homines, siquidem ordine naturae prius sumus homines quam peccatores, prius est subjectum quam eius accidens.

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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