On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §248

Man. Post. Cap. IV: PLAC — retain justice ≠ age in sin; not medium

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His second point wraps itself in contradiction. How could Adam, still keeping original righteousness—which is the opposite of unrighteousness and sin—grow old in sin, stay turned from God, desert God, rebel against God? What was that righteousness but a heart turned to God, habitual obedience to his commands, a steady will to obey him and give him his due—the very thing that made Adam righteous while it was in him? Who believes Adam would have grown old in sin unless he had lost righteousness? He would have grown old in righteousness if he had kept it.

The reply also turns silly when it pretends righteousness was stripped from Adam so he might repent and return to God. Spiritual death is so far from being a path to repentance and conversion that it makes them impossible and drives the man farthest from God. And it is silly to say the 'sense' of that present penalty pricked Adam.

Latin

Ea autem, quod secundum erat eius peccatum, sese contradictione involvit. Nam qui potuisset Adamus retinens justitiam originalem, quae sine dubio injustitiae seu peccato opponitur, consenescere in peccato, manere a Deo aversus, Dei desertor, Deo rebellis? Quid enim erat justitia illa, nisi conversio cordis ad Deum, obedientia habitualis Dei mandatis, constans voluntas obediendi Deo, jusque illi suum tribuendi, qua, hoc ipso quod ipsi inerat, justus erat Adamus? Quis ergo futurum fuisse credat, ut Adamus, nisi amitteret justitiam, consenesceret in peccato? Contra enim consensisset in justitia, si quidem justitiam non amisisset. Se quoque ridiculam praebet haec responsio, cum fingit ablatam fuisse Adamo justitiam, ut ad Deum resipiscendo rediret. Tantum enim abest, ut mors spiritualis medium sit ad resipiscentiam, & conversionem ad Deum, ut eam homini reddat impossibilem, eumque a Deo longissime abducat. Ridiculum etiam mihi videtur, quod dicitur, pupugisse Adamum praesentis illius poenae sensum.

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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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