On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §125

Cap. X: Superest ultima — Garissoles from imputed Christ’s justice

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His last argument remains, drawn from the imputation of Christ’s justice. He puts it this way: anything that overturns or shakes the teaching of Christ’s imputed righteousness must not be allowed or endured, but must be rooted out and cast off entirely. Yet the dogma that Adam’s sin is not imputed, he says, certainly shakes that teaching more than a little — because denying the first makes denying the second an easy slide. Since in Christ, the second Adam, we have a sure remedy against the evils and losses the first Adam brought on the human race, and a remedy ought to match the diseases it is meant to heal, anyone who thinks we inherit from Adam nothing worse than native corruption — and who sets sanctification over against that corruption — will soon conclude that we have no guilt earlier than our original stain from Adam’s disobedience, and that we need no imputation of Christ’s justice ahead of sanctification in nature’s order: where there is no evil, no remedy is needed.

Latin

Superest ultima eius ratio ducta ab imputatione Iustitiae Christi. Eam sic concipit. Quod doctrinam de imputata Christi justitia vel convellit, vel labefactat, neque admittendum, neque tolerandum est, sed amolendum omnino ac rejiciendum. Atqui dogmate de Non-imputatione peccati Adae, doctrinam de imputatione justitiae Christi, non parum labefactari certum est, cum ex negatione prioris facillimus sit lapsus ad posterioris negationem. Nam cum in Christo tanquam secundo Adamo, remedium habeamus certissimum adversus ea mala & damna, quae sunt in genus humanum a primo Adamo invecta; Remedium autem morbis, quibus sanandis paratum est, justa proportione respondere debeat; qui praeter nativam corruptionem, nihil nos damni ex Adamo trahere existimabit, & huic corruptioni considerabit ex adverso respondere donum sanctificationis, facile in eam sententiam deveniet, cum nullus sit in nobis propter Adae inobedientiam reatus labe nostra originali prior, neque opus esse ulla justitia Christi imputatione, quae sanctificationem ordine naturae praecedat: quia ubi nullum est malum, nullo etiam opus est remedio.

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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