On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §299

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR erotema 1 foedus-head; PLAC knot tip

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GAR. And yet the knots of the questions are not to be thought insoluble. Therefore now in the second place let us consider the erotemata one by one. It is asked first: If Adam sinned as the head of the race, why ought he not to be punished as head? Reply: When the name of head is given to Adam, account is taken not only of carnal origin, but also of that universal covenant which God struck in Adam with the human race. When therefore he is said to have sinned as head, it denotes not only that he was the radical principle of the whole race, but also that he was constituted head and principle of the race on this condition: that as soon as he turned aside from the obedience prescribed, not he alone would be bound by the guilt of his sin, but he would also make all posterity guilty, and so worthy of penalty. This, then, is what it is to have sinned as head: to have involved himself and posterity in guilt on account of that sin. PLAC. So the knot is not loosed, but enlarged by another knot: for besides that free and voluntary action which was ascribed to God without Scripture, see another—namely the pact of some universal covenant, of which there is not even a syllable in Scripture; and what is worse, a condition is invented hardly worthy of God.

Latin

GAR. Neque tamen quaestionum nodi putandi sunt insolubiles. Itaque nunc secundo loco Erotemata singula consideremus. Quaeritur primo. Si Adam peccavit, ut caput generis, cur non puniri debeat ut caput? Resp. Adamo cum tribuitur capitis nomen, rationem haberi non tantum originis carnalis, sed etiam foederis universalis illius, quod in Adamo Deus cum humano genere iniit. Cum ergo peccasse dicitur ut caput, non tantum denotatur, eum fuisse principium radicale totius generis, verum etiam ea conditione constitutum fuisse generis caput & principium, ut quamprimum ab obedientia praescripta deflecteret, non ipse tantum peccati sui reatu obstringeretur, sed & posteros omnes reos efficeret, ac proinde poena dignos. Hoc est ergo peccasse ut caput, se & posteros ob peccatum illud reatu involvisse. PLAC. Ita nodus non solvitur, sed augetur alio nodo: Nam praeter liberam & voluntariam illam actionem, quae Deo sine Scriptura tribuebatur, ecce aliam, nempe foederis cujusdam universalis pactionem, de qua ne gry quidem in Scriptura; & quod deterius est, conditio fingitur Deo haud satis digna.

About this text

Josue de la Place (Placeus) — Capita I–XIV partial of De imputatione primi peccati Adami from the 1661 Saumur Latin, through Man. Post. Caput X (GAR.1–3 Rom. 5.13 tip) / before PLAC on reatus-only. Honest partial; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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.

Catalogue & scope

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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