On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §38

Cap. VII: Gualtherus on the discrimen — first argument closed

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Here, therefore, that I may use the words of an excellent Zurich theologian: We ought to hold well the distinction which we lately noted between Adam and Christ. For he so propagated sin into all posterity that by nature we are all born sinners, and own sin inheres in us, which makes us liable to eternal punishment: but Christ so communicates his righteousness to us, not that it be in us essentially, or that we be defended in God's judgment by own righteousness, but that it be called ours by free imputation, and that on account of faith alone, which joins us to him, that we may be made his brothers, yes even members of his body. Allow me, I ask, whoever reads these things, warned by so great a man, to hold this distinction well, which by those arguments of his D. Garissoles has tried in vain to take away. So stood his first argument.

Latin

Hic, igitur, ut verba usurpem praestantis Theologi Tigurini, Probe tenere nos decet discrimen, quod inter Adamum et Christum nuper annotavimus. Ille enim peccatum ita in omnem posteritatem propagavit, ut natura omnes nascamur peccatores, et in nobis haereat peccatum proprium, quod nos aeterni supplicii reos facit: Christus autem suam iustitiam sic nobis communicat, non ut in nobis illa insit essentialiter, aut ut propria iustitia in Dei iudicio defendamur, sed quod nostra dicatur per imputationem gratuitam, idque propter solam fidem, quae nos illi coniungit, ut eius fratres, imo corporis sui membra efficiamur. Patere me quaeso, quisquis haec legis, tanto viro monente, hoc discrimen probe tenere, quod suis istis argumentis nequicquam tollere conatus est D. Garissolius. Sic se habuit primum eius argumentum.

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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