On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §664

Man. Post. Cap. X tip — minor clear: a one-hour act did not endure 2500 years; do not flee to imputation

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You cannot deny the major proposition; for it is yours, and if you denied it you could easily, as you yourself rightly observed, be convicted from the causal particle γάρ and the texture of the apostolic disputation.

The minor is clear by its own light.

Is it not plain that the first actual sin, which was a singular action and one in number, lasting scarcely one hour, was not in the world through all that time which flowed from its commission until the law of Moses—that is, that it did not endure in the world for the space of two thousand five hundred years?

This certainly fits original vice, which is in the world as long as the human race is; but it does not fit one individual and singular action, which as it is done passes with time, and though it did not cease to be in the world during Adam’s life—whose accident it was, namely an action—yet once he was dead, who could that same numerical act be in the world, that is in men, for two thousand five hundred years?

Do not flee to the imputation which I have already often refuted: for it is one thing for sin to be in the world, another for it to be imputed to the world; the latter follows in the order of nature, the former precedes.

Add that you cannot deny—certainly you ought not—that through all that time sin really was in the world or in men, and even reigned as men obeyed its lusts.

Latin

Maiorem propositionem negare non potes; est enim tua, & si negares, facile, ut tu recte observasti, ex particula causali γάρ, & textura disputationis Apostolicae revinci posses. Minor suapte luce manifesta est. Nonne enim perspicuum est peccatum primum actuale, quod actio fuit singularis & numero una, vix horam unam durans, non fuisse in mundo toto illo tempore quod ab eo perpetrato ad legem usque Mosis fluxit, hoc est, non perdurasse in mundo spatio duorum millium & quingentorum annorum? Hoc certe convenit vitio originali, quod tamdiu est in mundo quamdiu est genus humanum: sed non convenit uni actioni individuae & singulari, quae dum fit praeterit cum tempore, & ut non desiit esse in mundo vivente Adamo cuius accidens quoddam fuit, nimirum actio, tamen eo extincto qui potuit eadem numero in mundo, id est in hominibus, esse bis mille & quingentos annos? Noli confugere ad imputationem quam iam saepius confutavi: nam aliud est peccatum esse in mundo, aliud imputari mundo: hoc ordine naturae sequitur, illud praecedit. Adde quod negare non potes, certe non debes, revera toto illo tempore peccatum in mundo seu hominibus fuisse, immo regnasse obedientibus eius concupiscentiis hominibus.

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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