On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §677

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — after the law innate vice flared; Adam-act imputation stayed hidden

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When the law was given, innate vice showed itself far more clearly than before, and overflowed with a wealth of the worst fruits.

But the imputation of the first actual sin stayed as hidden as before, declared by no precept of the law, by no threat, by no sentence.

Indeed that imputation cannot stand with the Mosaic law, as, God favoring, I will make plain in its place.

In vain, therefore, would the Apostle have used that circumscription of time, until the law, if the question had been about that sort of one man’s actual sin imputed to all.

Latin

Lata lege vitium innatum sese multo quam antea clarius prodidit, ac pessimorum fructuum copia redundavit. Sed imputatio primi peccati actualis tam latuit quam antea, nullo legis praecepto, nulla comminatione, nulla sententia declarata. Immo illa imputatio cum lege Mosaica stare non potest, ut, Deo bene favente, suo loco planum faciam. Frustra igitur Apostolus illam temporis circumscriptionem adhibuisset usque ad legem, si de eiusmodi peccato actuali unius hominis omnibus imputato quaestio fuisset.

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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