On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §270

Man. Post. Cap. VI: one-man-in-Adam reply; whence from Scripture?

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But let us hear your answer. I answer, you say, that all men born from Adam are considered as one man in Adam, and all sinned in him, so that the first sin which he actually committed is imputed and ascribed to them, and it is enough that they be held for sinners and adjudged to death. May I ask whence you have that—from Scripture, or elsewhere? For by whom do you want all men to be considered as one man, if not by God? Whence, then, did that inner act of the divine mind become known to you? Scripture is silent; reason protests.

Latin

Sed tuam responsionem audiamus. Respondeo, inquis, omnes homines ex Adamo natos considerari tanquam unum hominem in Adamo & omnes peccasse in illo, ita ut primum peccatum, quod actualiter commisit, illis imputetur, & tribuatur, & satis sit ut habeantur pro peccatoribus, & morti adjudicentur. Licetne mihi quaerere, unde id habeas, ex Scriptura, an aliunde? nam a quo vis considerari omnes homines tanquam unum hominem, nisi a Deo? Unde igitur tibi iste mentis divinae internus actus innotuit? Tacet Scriptura, reclamat ratio.

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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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