On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §519

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — Ps 109 curse is effect; imputation would be through God

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PLAC. Who ever denied that God's actions are some immanent, some transeunt; those in God, these in creatures? And who does not know that into this latter kind must be placed the curse which is an action of God? Although by the curse in Psalm 109. 18. is not signified the action, but rather the effect of an angry God, namely misery, misfortune, the evil of penalty. The Prophet wants a man of this kind to be clothed and penetrated on every side with all bodily and spiritual evils. And so it preceded, he wished that the curse would befall him, and there follows, Let this be the reward of those opposing me, etc. But what does this do for the matter we are treating? It is asked in what sense the Apostle said that through one man sin entered into the world, that is, into humans? You say that by sin Adam's action must be understood. I ask, how could Adam's action, which long before any other humans were, had been past and had ceased to be, be said to have entered into all humans? You say it entered by imputation. I reply, that imputation is not the action of that one man, but of God alone. Not therefore through one man, but through God, did sin enter into all humans: than which nothing more absurd can be said.

Latin

PLAC. Quis unquam negavit Dei actiones alias esse immanentes, alias transeuntes; illas in Deo, has in creaturis esse? Et quis nescit in hoc posteriore genere ponendam esse maledictionem quae est actio Dei? Quanquam per maledictionem Ps. CIX. 18. non significatur actio, sed effectum potius Dei irati, nempe miseria, infortunium, malum poenae. Vult Propheta huiusmodi hominem omnibus malis corporalibus & spiritualibus omni ex parte induti & penetrari. Itaque praecessit, optavit ut maledictio eveniret ei, & sequitur, Hoc esto praemium adversantium mihi &c. Quid autem hoc ad rem, qua de agimus, facit? Quaeritur quo sensu dixerit Apostolus per unum hominem peccatum introiisse in mundum, id est, in homines? Dicis per peccatum intelligendam esse actionem Adami. Quaero, quomodo actio Adami, quae diu antequam ulli alii homines essent, fuerat praeterita ac esse desierat, dici potuit in omnes homines introiisse? Dicis introiisse imputatione. Repono, imputationem illam non esse actionem unius illius hominis, sed solius Dei. Non igitur per unum hominem, sed per Deum peccatum introiisse in omnes homines: quo nihil dici potest absurdius.

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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