On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §408

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC — Thomas generation; defect without actual-sin imputation

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The rest the learned man adds here does not seem to need refutation, especially if you remember, candid reader, what we said above at p. 163. When I opposed the assertion that Adam's will was the will of all, I did not think its sense was that the volition Adam exercised about the forbidden tree is imputed to all. Thomas's following words which you wrote out, though they contain truth, must not be passed by. And just as actual sin, which is a person's sin, is drawn to the several members by some personal act, so original sin is drawn to individual men by the act of nature which is generation. Again he distinguishes actual from original, and wants both to have been in Adam: that of the person, this of nature. So by original he must mean the corruption arisen from actual sin. Therefore he did not want the person's actual sin imputed to us—nor even nature's vice as it stuck in Adam, as we shall soon see: otherwise the generation by which Adam begot Seth our second parent would also be imputed to us, since that, by Thomas's witness, was an act of nature. He adds: And so just as human nature is drawn by generation, so also by generation is traduced the defect of human nature which followed from the first parent's sin. Nothing truer. That is my sentence. Whence I conclude: as human nature is drawn by generation without imputation of Adam's nature, so the defect of human nature is drawn by generation without imputation of Adam's actual sin. Namely nature's vice is drawn by nature's act, not by an act of God imputing Adam's sin to us and inflicting these defects.

Latin

Reliqua quae addit hoc loco vir doctus egere non videntur refutatione, praesertim si memineris, candide lector, eorum quae dicta sunt a nobis supra pag. 163. Cum assertionem, voluntatem Adami fuisse voluntatem omnium, oppugnavi, non putabam illius hunc esse sensum, volitionem, quam Adamus circa arborem vetitam exercuit, omnibus imputari. Sequentia Thomae verba quae tu adscripsisti etsi verum continent praetermittenda non sunt. Et sicut peccatum actuale, quod est peccatum personae, trahitur ad singula membra per aliquem actum personalem, ita peccatum originale trahitur ad singulos homines per actum naturae qui est generatio. Rursus peccatum actuale distinguit ab originali, & utrumque vult in Adamo fuisse: illud personae, hoc naturae. Necesse est igitur ut per originale corruptionem intelligat ex peccato actuali ortam. Quare non voluit peccatum actuale, quod personae est, nobis imputari: immo nec vitium naturae quatenus in Adamo haesit, ut mox videbimus: alioqui imputanda etiam nobis esset generatio, qua secundum nostrum parentem Sethum Adamus genuit, quandoquidem illa teste Thoma actus fuit naturae. Subjicit, Et ita sicut per generationem humana natura trahitur, ita etiam per generationem traducitur defectus humanae naturae qui est consecutus ex peccato primi parentis. Nihil verius. Mea haec est sententia. Unde concludo, quemadmodum natura humana trahitur per generationem absque imputatione naturae Adami, sic trahi per generationem defectus naturae humanae absque imputatione peccati actualis Adami. Trahitur nempe vitium naturae per actum naturae, non per actum Dei imputantis nobis peccatum Adami, & hos defectus infligentis.

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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