On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §27

Cap. VII: Amyraut on condemnation as obligation — Placeus: not before corruption

Here D. Garissoles, at the place praised, from the distinguished Amyraut's book On Justification in the Milletus, chapter 3, gathers thus from him. You hear, he says, a condemnation descending into us from Adam's disobedience, which was a single action — a condemnation which is not something inhering, but an obligation to punishment (the distinguished Amyraut had added: or a declaration of that obligation by a superior power). But he who on account of another's disobedience is obligated to punishment sustains the guilt of that disobedience, and so that disobedience is imputed to him.

I do indeed hear condemnation descending into us from that disobedience, but I do not hear it descending immediately and before hereditary corruption: which yet is the one thing controverted between us. The distinguished man said that Adam by his disobedience brought in condemnation and death, namely because he brought in sin into all men, the cause of condemnation and death, as is plain from Romans 5:12. He said that those who have communion with Adam share his condemnation and together with him have been subjected to death. But he understands communion with Adam not insofar as he was man (for even Christ himself had this) but insofar as he was a sinner. And we have communion with Adam insofar as he was man, because we drew our nature from him, and insofar as he was a sinner, because we drew our sin from him. We therefore sustain the guilt of that disobedience, but by the mediating of the corruption derived from him into us.

Latin

Hic D. G. laudato loco ex Clar. Amyraldi lib. de Iustif. in Millet. c. 3. ex eo sic colligit. Audis, inquit, ex inobedientia Adami, quae fuerit unica actio, in nos descendentem condemnationem, quae non sit aliquid inhaerens, sed obligatio ad poenam (addiderat Cl. Amyr. vel obligationis illius declaratio a potestate superiori). Qui autem propter inobedientiam alterius obligatur ad poenam, reatum sustinet illius inobedientiae, adeoque imputatur ei illa inobedientia. Audio quidem ex illa inobedientia descendere in nos condemnationem, sed non audio descendere immediate et ante corruptionem haereditariam: id quod tamen unum inter nos controversitur. Dixit vir Clar. Adamum inobedientia sua condemnationem et mortem invexisse, nimirum quia invexit peccatum in omnes homines, causam condemnationis et mortis, ut patet ex Rom. 5. 12. Dixit eos qui cum Adamo communionem habent, eius condemnationem participare, et una cum eo morte esse subiectos. Intelligit autem communionem cum Adamo, non quatenus fuit homo (hanc enim etiam ipse Christus habuit) sed quatenus fuit peccator. Habemus autem communionem cum Adamo quatenus fuit homo, quia traximus ab eo naturam nostram, et quatenus fuit peccator, quia traximus ab eo peccatum nostrum. Sustinemus itaque reatum illius inobedientiae, sed mediante corruptione ab eo in nos derivata.

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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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