On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §275

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC — no Scripture for representation; forum tip before GAR 4

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Did God then reveal it in Scripture? Let the place be produced. Can it be gathered from nature? Let a reason be adduced. For to one affirming something of that kind I am neither bound nor is it expedient to assent beyond the book of nature and of Scripture. Nor indeed can it be gathered from the words of Augustine or of the most distinguished Amyraut. For what consequence is this: every man is by origin nothing but Adam—therefore all men were considered by God as one man in Adam—or, therefore Adam in sinning sustained the person of all men? What the learned man says, that a natural conjunction can be a fit cause why someone should undergo penalties for another's crime, is not true in the divine forum, unless there is also between them a conjunction of sin, or at least in the one who is punished a sin worthy of that penalty, or he himself is a vessel of sins. What he subjoins, that because of unity of representation Adam's sinning was the same as if all had committed the sin, needs proof. For not whatever one who represents another does is at once to be imputed to that other, whether he consents or does not consent. God struck a covenant with the human race in Noah, and with the Israelites in Abraham; yet of neither, I think, were good works or sins imputed to their posterity.

Latin

Idne igitur revelavit Deus in Scriptura? Proferatur locus. Potestne ex natura colligi? adferatur ratio. Affirmanti enim aliquid ejusmodi, praeter naturae & Scripturae librum assentiri nec teneor, nec expedit. Nec vero id ex Augustini aut Clariss. Amyraldi verbis colligi potest. Quae enim consequentia, omnis homo nihil est origine nisi Adam. Ergo omnes homines fuerunt a Deo considerati tanquam unus homo in Adam. Vel, Ergo Adamus in peccando sustinebat omnium hominum personam? Quod ait Vir Doctus, naturalem conjunctionem idoneam causam esse posse, cur aliquis pro alterius crimine poenis subjaceat, verum non est in foro divino; nisi aut sit etiam inter eos conjunctio peccati, aut saltem sit in eo, qui punitur, peccatum dignum illa poena, aut sit ipse peccatorum vas. Quod subjungit, propter unitatem repraesentationis, Adamo peccante idem fuisse, ac si omnes peccatum commisissent, probatione eget. Non enim quicquid facit qui alterum repraesentat, huic continuo sive consentiat, sive non consentiat, imputandum est. Pepigit Deus foedus cum genere humano in Noacho, & cum Israelitis in Abrahamo, neutrius tamen, opinor, aut bona opera aut peccata posteris imputata sunt.

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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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