On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §422

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC — justus readings; Noah/Lot spared; Abimelech after Gen 18

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What of this—that there is no one at all who is just and who does not sin: all have sinned and are destitute of the glory of God: even infants newly born are polluted by inherent vice, and therefore worthy of those penalties with which they are afflicted by God's justice. I pass over that common penalties stand otherwise in the pious, otherwise in the impious. For in respect of the former they are chastisements and paternal penalties, and a commuting of a life liable to sin and misery into one perfectly holy and blessed; so no injury is done them—nor to the children of the impious, who so die for original sin, by which they are like their parents, that they are yet preserved from many sins they would have committed if life had been prolonged to them, and from many calamities into which they would have fallen; which can be counted for some benefit. Least of all, then, does this oracle of God in Ezekiel clash with Abraham's testimony. The examples of divine dispensation which the learned man subjoins stand against his cause. For God's justice did not involve Noah in the same condemnation with the impious in the general flood, nor Lot in the overthrow of Sodom. For the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: although the overthrow of Sodom followed and did not precede—as the learned man's slip of memory seems to suppose—that colloquy of Abraham with God. The same must be said of the example published in Abimelech's household: for its history is narrated only at Gen. 20, and is so narrated that Abimelech appears to have felt the same as Abraham concerning God's justice.

Latin

Quid, quod nullus est omnino justus, & qui non peccet: omnes peccaverunt & destituti sunt gloria Dei: ipsi infantes recens nati inhaerente vitio polluti sunt, ac propterea illis poenis digni quibus a Dei justitia afficiuntur. Taceo communes poenas aliter sese in piis habere, aliter in impiis. Illorum enim respectu sunt castigationes, & poenae paternae, & vitae peccato & miseriae obnoxiae in perfecte sanctam ac beatam commutatio; itaque nulla iis fit injuria, uti nec impiorum liberis, qui ita ob peccatum originale, quo parentibus similes sunt, moriuntur, ut tamen a multis peccatis, quae si prorogata illis vita fuisset, commisissent, & a multis calamitatibus in quas incidissent, praeserventur; id quod in aliquo beneficio reponi potest. Minime igitur pugnat hoc Dei apud Ezech. oraculum cum Abrahami testimonio. Exempla divinae dispensationis quae vir doctus subjungit, eius causae obsunt. Non enim eadem cum impiis condemnatione Noachum in diluvio generali, nec Lothum in Sodomorum subversione Dei justitia involuit. Novit enim Dominus pios e tentatione eripere, injustos autem in diem judicii poenas dantes servare: quanquam Sodomorum subversio secuta est non antecessit, ut memoria lapsus supponere videtur Vir doctus, istud Abrahami cum Deo colloquium. Idem de edito in Abimelechi familia exemplo dici debet: narratur enim eius historia demum Gen. cap. 20. & ita narratur, ut appareat idem cum Abrahamo sensisse Abimelechum de Dei justitia.

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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