On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §446

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: proximate cause in us — why impute alien actual sin?

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Why do you seek so far the proximate cause of the evils which we all suffer, when it meets you near at hand? Why do you seek it in Adam when in each of us it shows itself? Why is it needful that God impute to us an alien sin, when in us he finds a sin which merits those penalties? Why should he impute an actual sin which we did neither in act nor in potency, when he sees in each of us a vice actually inhering, worthy of those penalties?

Latin

Cur tam longe quaeris causam proximam malorum quae omnes patimur, cum occurrat in proximo? Cur eam quaeris in Adamo cum in nobis singulis se prodat? Cur opus est ut Deus nobis imputet peccatum alienum, cum in nobis inveniat peccatum quod illas poenas meretur? Cur imputet actuale quod neque actu neque potentia fecimus, cum videat in singulis nobis vitium actu inhaerens dignum illis poenis?

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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