On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §262

Man. Post. Cap. IV: GAR 3 / PLAC — latitudo mortis; Caeterum tip before Caput V

o reason can be given why 'death' should not be taken here in its full breadth; and Scripture plainly refers the name of death not only to the body but also to the soul and to spiritual things—see Ezekiel 3:18; Hosea 13:1; Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60 and 15:24; Ephesians 2:1; 1 Timothy 5:6; Revelation 3:1, and so on.

ason is ready: spiritual death is sin, not—properly speaking—the penalty of sin. The Law threatens not sin, but only the penalty of sin properly so called. As for authorities of weighty men not being wanting—authorities of men no less weighty are not wanting to me either, and I already cited the Helvetic Confession, article 8. But why fight with human witnesses where far stronger reasons are at hand? For the rest, see what follows: if privation of righteousness is not a penalty the law denounced, it is certainly not a penalty properly so called. Therefore that actual sin of Adam is not to be ascribed to us by justice's avenger as He imputes it.

Latin

GAR. 3. Nulla ratio dici potest, quare non mortis nomen in tota sua latitudine hoc loco sumatur; atqui mortis nomen in Scripturis non ad corpus modo, sed & ad animam, & spiritualia referri patet ex frequentibus Scripturae testimoniis. Vide Ezech. 3. 18. Os. 13. 1. Matth. 8. 22. Luc. 9. 60. & 15. 24. Ephes. 2. 1. 1. Tim. 5. 6. Apoc. 3. 1. &c. PLAC. Ratio est in promptu, quia mors spiritualis est peccatum, non autem proprie loquendo peccati poena. Comminatur autem Lex non peccatum, sed proprie dictam duntaxat peccati poenam. Quod autem ait, non deesse auctoritates gravium virorum, nec desunt etiam mihi non minus gravium virorum auctoritates, & jam supra Helveticam laudavi confessionem Art. 8. Sed quid opus est humanis pugnare testimoniis, ubi rationes adsunt illis multo validiores? Caeterum vides quid hinc sequatur: nam si privatio justitiae non est poena lege denunciata, certe poena proprie dicta non est. Quare non est adscribenda justitiae vindici nobis peccatum illud actuale Adami imputantis.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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