On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §316

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Seth-act precedes imputation tip

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But that act by which we were first made humans is that act of generating by which Adam begot Seth: therefore the antecedent or immediate imputation of the first sin presupposes that act. Earlier, then, was it that we be counted as begotten from Adam than as sinners, and that first act by which we were begotten belonged to us earlier than that by which we were made sinners. For Adam's sin is imputed to us because we are his posterity; and we are his posterity because he begot us; and he begot us insofar as he begot Seth. Therefore the act by which he begot Seth precedes the imputation of sin in the order of nature. And yet, if the learned man is believed, Adam's sin was imputed to us long before he had begotten Seth, at the very time it was committed: either then it also preceded Adam's coming to be.

Latin

Is autem actus, quo primo facti sumus homines, est actus ille generandi, quo Adamus Sethum genuit: quare imputatio peccati primi antecedens seu immediata supponit illum actum. Prius igitur fuit nos haberi pro genitis ab Adamo, quam pro peccatoribus, & primus ille actus quo geniti sumus prius ad nos pertinuit, quam ille quo facti sumus peccatores. Imputatur enim nobis peccatum Adae, quia sumus eius posteri: sumus autem eius posteri, quia nos genuit: nos autem genuit, quatenus genuit Sethum. Actus ergo quo genuit Sethum ordine naturae antecedit imputationem peccati. Sed tamen, si viro docto fides habetur, imputatum est nobis peccatum Adami diu antequam Sethum genuisset, illo ipso tempore quo commissum est: aut igitur antecessit etiam fieri Adami.

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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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