On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §451

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: penalties via Adam's communicated malice; leaven of the mass

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But now he did the Contrary—to what end, unless that we understand the penalties decreed by that sentence do not pertain to us, except because Adam communicated them with us, the malice of his sin which merits them having been communicated through carnal generation? and so that we should not seek the cause why we pay those penalties in God imputing to us an action which we in no way committed, that he may punish us, but in Adam alone, and in the nature of the sin itself, which, like some leaven put into the mass of the human race, corrupted that whole mass not through God's imputation but through carnal generation, and infected it with malice. You see that I am pleading God's cause; do not, I beg you, oppose him.

Latin

Nunc autem Contrarium fecit, quorsum, nisi ut intelligamus decretas ea sententia poenas ad nos non pertinere, nisi quia Adamus nobiscum eas communicavit, communicata, quae illas meretur, per carnalem generationem peccati sui malitia? atque ita causam cur eas poenas luamus, non quaeramus in Deo nobis actionem, quam nullo modo commisimus, imputante, ut nos puniat, sed in Adamo solo, & natura peccati ipsius, quod, ut fermentum quoddam massae generis humani immissum, eam totam, non per Dei imputationem, sed per carnalem generationem corrupit, ac malitia infecit. Vides me Dei causam agere, noli quaeso ei adversari.

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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