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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §1

The Charenton decree: original sin is not corruption alone without Adam's first-sin imputation

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Chapter One. The decree of the Synod.

The decree of the Synod runs as follows, Antoine Garissoles — minister of the Word of God and professor of sacred theology in the church and academy of Montauban — turning it from French into Latin speech.

When it had been reported to the Synod that certain writings had come forth, some published in type, others drawn out by hand, which define the whole account of original sin by hereditary corruption alone inhering in all human beings, and deny the imputation of Adam's first sin: the Synod condemned doctrine of that sort, insofar as it so restricts the nature of original sin to the hereditary corruption of Adam's posterity that it excludes the imputation of that first sin by which Adam fell (Genesis 3:6). And therefore it judged that pastors, professors, and any others who, in the discussion of this question, have withdrawn from the common judgment of the Protestant churches — churches which have all hitherto acknowledged both that corruption and this imputation descending upon all Adam's posterity (Romans 5:12) — should be subjected to all censures. But the same Synod also enjoins upon all colloquies and provincial synods that those whom they cause to be advanced as candidates of theology to the sacred ministry are to be ordered to subscribe their own hand to this Decree.

This Decree has also been variously received by the provincial synods themselves. To some it seemed good that it be put into execution. To others it seemed right to hold their judgment in suspense, and to suspend the execution of that Decree until another National Synod. There were among pastors and private persons those who kissed it as necessary, as most equitable, as most true. There were not wanting, on the other side, those who dared to reject it as new, as not necessary, as made too hastily, the matter scarcely weighed enough, and without consulting the provincial synods — indeed, as less agreeable to the Word of God.

Latin

CAPUT PRIMUM. DECRETUM SYNODI. Decretum Synodi sic se habet, vertente e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem D. Garissolio, in Ecclesia & Academia Montalbanensi Verbi Dei Ministro & SS. Theologiae Professore. Cum relatum fuisset ad Synodum, scripta quaedam, alia typis evulgata, alia manu exarata, prodisse, quae totam rationem peccati originalis sola corruptione haereditaria in omnibus hominibus inhaerente definiunt, & primi peccati Adae imputationem negant: Damnavit Synodus doctrinam ejusmodi, quatenus peccati Originalis naturam ad corruptionem haereditariam posterorum Adae ita restringit, ut imputationem excludat primi illius peccati, quo lapsus est Adam: Adeoque censuris omnibus subjiciendos censuit Pastores, Professores, & quoscunque alios, qui in hujus quaestionis disceptatione a communi sententia recesserint Ecclesiarum Protestantium, quae omnes hactenus & Corruptionem illam, & Imputationem hanc in omnes Adami posteros descendentem agnoverunt. Sed & illud eadem Synodus omnibus Colloquiis & Synodis Provincialibus injungit, ut quos Theologiae candidatos ad sacrum ministerium evehendos curaverint, ii jubeantur huic Decreto Chirographum suum subscribere. HOC Decretum etiam ab ipsis Synodis Provincialibus varie acceptum est. Quibusdam enim placuit illud executioni mandari: Aliis vero visum judicium suum sustinere, illiusque Decreti executionem usque ad alteram Synodum Nationalem suspendere. Fuere ex pastoribus & privatis hominibus, qui illud ut necessarium, ut aequissimum, ut verissimum exoscularentur: Non defuere contra, qui illud ut novum, ut non necessarium, ut nimis festinanter, re haud satis pensitata, Synodisque Provincialibus inconsultis factum, immo ut minus Dei verbo consentaneum rejicere auderent.

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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.

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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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