On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §447

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: mediate imputation via shared viciousness; three in order

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You will perhaps reply that the miseries of this life and the death of the body were inflicted on Adam for actual sin, because, God says, you obeyed your wife's voice and ate from the tree which I commanded you, saying, and so on. And so you will gather: whose sin's penalties we pay, that sin is ours. We pay the penalties of Adam's actual sin. It is ours, therefore; how, unless by imputation? What if I concede (as I did in constituting the status of the question) that Adam's sin is imputed to us and is ours, but only mediately; because by participation in the viciousness which he left in Adam we communicate with him, and by the habitual depravity of will derived from him we consent to him? For these three follow one another in order: Adam's actual sin, the corruption inhering in us, the penalty. This is born proximately from the corruption inhering in us; the corruption from Adam's actual sin. Reread, if you please, the words of Aegidius Hunnius which I wrote down in Cap. 2 while constituting the status of the question, and also of Chamier, whose place I noted there.

Latin

Repones fortasse miserias huius vitae & mortem corporis inflictas fuisse Adamo ob peccatum actuale, quia, inquit Deus, paruisti voci uxoris tuae & comedisti ex arbore quam praecepi tibi dicendo &c. Et sic colliges, cujus peccati poenas luimus, id peccatum nostrum est. Peccati actualis Adami poenas luimus. Nostrum est igitur; quomodo, nisi imputatione? Quid si concedam (quod feci in constituendo statu quaestionis) nobis peccatum Adami imputari ac nostrum esse, sed mediate tantum; quia illi participatione vitiositatis, quam in Adamo reliquit, communicamus, & habituali voluntatis pravitate ab eo derivata ei consentimus? Tria enim ista sese ordine consequuntur, peccatum actuale Adami, corruptio nobis inhaerens, poena. Haec nascitur proxime a corruptione nobis inhaerente, corruptio a peccato actuali Adami. Relege, si placet, verba Aegidii Hunnii, quae Cap. 2. dum statum quaestionis constituerem, adscripsi, necnon Chamieri, quorum locum ibidem notavi.

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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