On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §273

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC proves conceded; GAR 2 in quo / PLAC deny immediate

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Next I asked whence he had it—that is, from what divine Scripture. For such an act of the divine mind cannot be known from elsewhere than from God's revelation. But he flees to Augustine and Martyr, to whom such a divine act was not, I think, revealed from heaven by name. Then I did not deny that all men were somehow one in Adam—namely by unity of species and of origin; I only denied that it follows from that that they were so considered by God as one that He immediately imputed to them Adam's first actual sin. I also denied that they were considered as one numerically, or as an individual man. Therefore he proves what I concede; what I deny he does not even touch. GAR. 2. Since the Apostolic words 'in whom all sinned' denote the imputation of Adam's sin, as was confirmed above, and that imputation is an act of God declaring all guilty on account of Adam's sin, it follows that if those words signify that all were considered in Adam as one man, they designate by the same reason that they were so considered by God. PLAC. Neither did the Apostle say that all sinned in Adam; nor, if he had said it, would those words denote the imputation of Adam's sin, at least not immediate, as we both showed above and will confirm below.

Latin

Deinde quaesivi, unde haberet, hoc est, ex qua divina Scriptura. Talis enim actus mentis divinae aliunde quam ex Dei revelatione cognosci nequit. Ille vero confugit ad Augustinum, & Martyrem, quibus talis divinus actus non est, opinor, nominatim caelitus revelatus. Tum non negavi omnes homines aliquomodo unum fuisse in Adamo, nempe unitate speciei, & originis, tantum negavi inde sequi fuisse ita a Deo tanquam unum consideratos, ut illis primum Adami peccatum actuale immediate imputaverit. Negavi etiam fuisse consideratos tanquam unum numero, seu individuum hominem. Itaque ille probat quod concedo, quod nego ne attingit quidem. GAR. 2. Cum Apostolica verba, in quo omnes peccaverunt, imputationem Adamici peccati denotent, ut est supra confirmatum: imputatio autem illa sit actus Dei declarantis omnes ob Adami peccatum reos, consequens est, ut, si ea verba significant omnes in Adamo consideratos ut unum hominem, designent eadem ratione, a Deo ita fuisse consideratos. PLAC. Nec Apostolus dixit omnes in Adamo peccavisse; Nec si id dixisset, verba illa denotarent imputationem Adami peccati, saltem immediatam, uti & supra ostendimus, & infra confirmabimus.

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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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