On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §375

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC dying-you-die ≠ privation of justice; Christ blocks

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PLAC. I argued, I say—I have already proved that by the words dying you shall die is not to be understood a death seated in the privation of justice. For what is more absurd than either that a law should threaten the privation of justice, or that a judge should strip of justice those whom he judges? I have also proved that God did not fulfill that threat of the law in Adam, on account of Christ's future satisfaction. And how could it have been fulfilled, if by those words death of body and eternal death were signified? To punish according to the law's threat and not to punish; to impute sin and not to impute; to justify the guilty and yet in him fulfill the law's threat—if I understand anything—so fight that they cannot stand together. Far be it therefore that I believe God stripped Adam of original justice and made him from just into unjust.

Latin

PLAC. Argui, inquam, iam probavi verbis morte morieris non esse intelligendam mortem sitam in privatione justitiae. Quid enim absurdius, quam, aut legem comminari privationem justitiae, aut judicem spoliare eos quos judicat justitia? Probavi etiam Deum illam comminationem legis non adimplevisse in Adamo, ob futuram Christi satisfactionem. Et quomodo potuit adimpleri, si verbis illis mors significabatur corporis & aeterna? punire secundum legis comminationem & non punire: peccatum imputare & non imputare: justificare reum & tamen in eo adimplere legis comminationem, si quid intelligo, ita pugnant, ut consistere simul nequeant. Absit igitur ut credam Deum spoliavisse Adamum justitia originali, ac eum ex justo fecisse injustum.

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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