On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §460

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: if only by imputation, evil's community not from serpent; tip

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If therefore actual sin is not common to all except by imputation—because God imputes it to all—and original sin or inhering vice is not in us except because it is fixed in us by God as the penalty of that imputed actual, the community of evil is not from the serpent. Nor is that privation of original justice and hereditary corruption the serpent's virus which he breathed upon us, but (which my mind shudders to say) God's effect and work.

Latin

Si igitur peccatum actuale non est omnibus commune, nisi imputatione; quia Deus illud omnibus imputat, nec est in nobis peccatum originale seu vitium inhaerens, nisi quia nobis in poenam actualis illius imputati a Deo infigitur, mali communitas non est a serpente; Nec ista privatio justitiae originalis & corruptio haereditaria virus est serpentis, quod nobis afflavit, sed (quod horret animus meus dicere) Dei effectum & opus.

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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