On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §321

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC mode-difference; gift vs imputation clash

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PLAC. The learned man therefore acknowledges that we are not constituted sinners before God's tribunal by Adam's disobedience in altogether the same mode in which we are constituted righteous by Christ's obedience: and so that likeness is not to be pressed as if there were no difference in the mode: and this is the whole of what we meant to prove by this interrogation, if indeed we used it. Therefore his reply fights for us, not against us. Yet some things in it seem worthy of censure. First, that he says Christ's righteousness is ours only by imputation: for if likewise, as he everywhere contends, Adam's sin is ours only by imputation, both are ours in the same mode, and there is no difference in that point. That clashes with the Apostle, who hints a very great difference in the mode by which Christ's righteousness and Adam's unrighteousness are ours, when he calls the former a gift, and grace, and a donation which is of grace: for so he signifies the mode by which it becomes ours—a mode in which Adam's sin neither was made ours, nor could be.

Latin

PLAC. Agnoscit ergo vir doctus non eodem prorsus modo per Adami inobedientiam nos coram tribunali Dei constitui peccatores, quo per Christi obedientiam constituimur justi: itaque non esse urgandam illam similitudinem, quasi nullum esset in modo discrimen: hoc vero est totum, quod hac interrogatione, siquidem ea sumus usi, probare instituimus. Quare pro nobis, non contra nos haec eius militat responsio. Videntur tamen in ea quaedam digna reprehensione. Illud in primis, quod ait, justitiam Christi nostram non esse nisi imputatione: nam si similiter, ut passim contendit, peccatum Adami nostrum non est nisi imputatione, eodem modo ambo nostra sunt, nec ea in re ullum est discrimen. Id quod pugnat cum Apostolo, maximum in modo, quo nostra sunt, justitia Christi & iniustitia Adami, discrimen innuente, cum illam appellat donum, & gratiam, & donationem quae est ex gratia: sic enim modum significat quo fit nostra: quo modo nostrum nec factum est, nec fieri potuit Adami peccatum.

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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