On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §320

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR 3 why not Adam our sin — external merit tip

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GAR. 3. Yet a probable reason can be given why Adam is not called our sin as Christ is named our righteousness. For Christ is so called that it may be signified there is nothing internal and inherent in us by whose force and virtue we can stand before God's tribunal, or obtain absolution and remission of sins: and so all that is meritorious of our justification is outside us—namely the righteousness which is Christ's own, ours only by imputation. But no such thing can be said of Adam. For besides that Adam's actual sin is meritorious of the penalties that lie on us, there is also something internal and inherent in us by whose desert we also lie under condemnation—namely our native corruption, which together with Adam's imputed sin makes as it were one body of guilt by which God in His judgment holds us liable. See then a cause why Scripture did not say Adam is our sin as it said Christ is our righteousness.

Latin

GAR. 3. Probabilis tamen ratio reddi potest, quare Adam non dicatur peccatum nostrum, sicut Christus justitia nostra nominatur. Ita nempe vocatur Christus, ut significetur, nihil esse internum & inhaerens in nobis, cuius vi & virtute coram Dei tribunali consistere, aut absolutionem & remissionem peccatorum impetrare valeamus: itaque extra nos esse totum illud, quod est nostrae justificationis meritorium, justitia nimirum quae Christi est propria, nostra non est nisi imputatione. Atqui tale aliquid de Adamo dici non potest. Nam praeterquam quod Adami peccatum actuale meritorium est poenarum, quae nobis incumbunt; est etiam internum aliquid & in nobis inhaerens, cuius merito etiam condemnationi subjacemus, nimirum nativa nostra corruptio, quae una cum imputato Adae peccato facit unum veluti corpus reatus, quo Deus judicio suo nos tenet obnoxios. En igitur causa esse potest, quare non dixerit Scriptura Adamum esse peccatum nostrum, sicut dixit Christum esse justitiam nostram.

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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