On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §85

Cap. VIII: Remote cause yes; deny inhering sin or drop immediate imputation

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Next I distinguish "on account of" as above. It marks either a remote cause or a proximate one. If the remote, the whole argument is granted; if the proximate, the premise is denied. For, as I have driven home many times, Adam's first actual sin is the cause of our inhering sin, and this is the cause of death; and what is the cause of a cause is also the cause of the effect. Either, with Pelagius, Pighius, and Socinus, inhering sin and its guilt must be denied, or it is impossible from the Apostle's words to force an antecedent or immediate imputation of Adam's actual sin.

Latin

Deinde distinguo propter ut supra. Nam vel causam remotam designat, vel proximam. Si illam, conceditur totum argumentum; si hanc, negatur propositio. Est enim, ut multoties inculcavi, primum Adami peccatum actuale causa nostri peccati inhaerentis, & hoc causa mortis: quod autem est causa causae, id causa est etiam effectus. Aut cum Pelagio, Pighio, & Socino negandum est peccatum inhaerens ejusque reatus, aut impossibile est ex verbis Apostoli imputationem peccati Adae actualis antecedentem seu immediatam efficere.

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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