On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §56

Cap. VII: Placeus denies the confession — force of one sin versus numerical ingress

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But what will you say, candid reader, if the most learned author of that reason does not confess what he is here said to confess? Certainly he does not acknowledge that that sin which is said to have entered through one man is one sin of one man, namely Adam's: he does not hold that; he said it neither in so many words nor in equivalent ones. He said only that in one man's one sin there was such force that it should sentence the whole multitude of men to death; but he did not say that that one sin of one man entered into all men as the same in number, and brought death in immediately. Namely, the sin that entered into the world is the effect of one sin of one man; and through one man sin entered into the world, and death by the force of one sin, which diffused and multiplied itself by natural propagation, and propagated with the human nature in which it inheres. Therefore it sentenced the whole multitude of men to death by its propagation into all men, and by multiplication according to number. This is that most excellent man's mind, contradicting neither himself nor Placeus.

Latin

Quid vero dices, candide Lector, si id non confitetur doctissimus autor illius rationis, quod hic confiteri dicitur? Certe non agnoscit peccatum illud, quod per unum hominem introiisse dicitur, esse unum unius hominis, nempe Adami peccatum: id non sentit: id neque totidem verbis dixit, neque aequipollentibus. Dixit tantum in uno unius peccato tantam fuisse vim, ut totam hominum multitudinem morti addiceret: sed non dixit illud unum unius peccatum idem numero in omnes homines ingressum esse, & proxime mortem invexisse. Nempe peccatum quod introiit in mundum est unius peccati unius hominis effectum, & per unum hominem peccatum introiit in mundum & mors vi unius peccati, quod sese propagatione naturali diffudit, & multiplicavit, & cum natura humana, cui inhaeret, propagavit. Itaque totam hominum multitudinem morti addixit sui in omnes homines propagatione, ac secundum numerum multiplicatione. Haec est praestantissimi illius viri mens, neque sibi, neque Placeo contradicentis.

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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