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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §68

Cap. VIII: Gualtherus and Martyr — analogy, not true likeness; no novelty charge

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Does it please you also to hear Rudolph Gualther? "The sense, then, is that Adam and Christ can indeed be compared with each other in this, that each propagated into his own what was his. But in the rest there is a manifold difference, and the account of the offense or sin brought in through Adam is not the same as that of the benefit exhibited to us in Christ," and so on. And a little later: "But a double difference seems to be noted in these words, so that first corrupt Nature and the grace of God are opposed, because Adam indeed, on account of the corruption of nature which he contracted from his fall, propagated sin into all posterity, so that we are born sinners from the very womb of our mother: but Christ was given to us by grace, so that his righteousness or obedience should overflow into the many, that is, into all. Therefore that we are sinners and liable to death because of sin, we have from nature as our own: but that we have been made just and sharers of life is the free benefit of God, who imputes to us the righteousness of his Son because of the faith by which we apprehend him." To these two I will add a third, Peter Martyr, Commentary on Romans 5:14, at the words "who is the type of the one to come" (Romans 5:14): "This likeness is to be taken in the genus, that as all depend on Adam, so all depend on Christ according to their order: and that as the one has merited for all who are his, so also the other. But particularly and as to the species there is a great difference. For Adam brought in sin, death, and damnation: but Christ righteousness, life, and grace. There is also a difference in the propagation. For Adam poured his evils into men by the generation of the flesh. But Christ by faith. Therefore when Paul had said that Adam was the type of the one to come, he subjoins as if by correction: But not as the sin, so also the gift (Romans 5:15). So between Adam and Christ an analogy and proportion of a certain kind, rather than a true likeness, is to be established." You see us defending the teaching of great men against the assault of D. Garissoles. Do not therefore, I ask, candid reader, condemn us for novelty.

Latin

Placet-ne etiam audire Rodolphum Gualterum? Sensus ergo est, in hoc quidem comparari inter se posse Adamum & Christum, quod uterque quod suum erat in suos propagarit. In caeteris vero Multiplex esse discrimen, neque eandem esse rationem offensae aut peccati per Adamum invecti, & beneficii nobis in Christo exhibiti &c. & paulo post. Videtur autem duplex discrimen his verbis annotari, ut primo quidem Natura corrupta & gratia Dei opponantur, eo quod Adam quidem propter naturae corruptionem, quam ex suo lapsu contraxit, peccatum in omnes posteros propagarit, adeo ut peccatores ex ipso matris utero nascamur: Christus vero nobis ex gratia datus sit, ut eius iustitia sive obedientia in multos, id est, in omnes redundaret. Quod ergo peccatores & propter peccatum morti obnoxii sumus, hoc ex natura ceu proprium habemus: quod vero iusti & vitae consortes facti sumus, id gratuitum Dei beneficium est, qui Filii sui iustitiam nobis imputat propter fidem, qua hunc apprehendimus. His duobus tertium adiungam Petrum Martyrem Com. in Rom. 5. Vs. 14. ad verba qui est typus futuri. Similitudo haec accipienda est in genere quod sicut omnes ab Adamo, ita omnes a Christo iuxta ordinem suum pendeant: quodque quemadmodum alter meritus est suis omnibus, ita etiam alter. Sed particulariter & quoad species magnum est discrimen. Nam Adamus peccatum, mortem, & damnationem invexit: Christus vero iustitiam, vitam & gratiam. Est etiam discrimen in propagatione. Adamus enim mala sua per carnis generationem in homines transfudit. Christus autem per fidem. Ideo Paulus cum dixisset, Adamum typum fuisse futuri, quasi per correctionem subiicit. At non ut peccatum, ita & donum. Quamobrem inter Adamum & Christum potius analogia quaedam & proportio, quam vera similitudo constituenda est. Vides nos Magnorum virorum doctrinam adversus D. Garissolii impetum defendere. Noli nos igitur quaeso, candide lector, novitatis damnare.

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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