On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §322

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC inherent corruption vs immediate extra us tip

Next, to what end does he observe here that Christ's own righteousness is ours only by imputation, if he holds the same of the sin that is Adam's own—that it likewise is ours only by imputation? What does that do to explain the difference between Christ and Adam? Or if he does not hold that, he contradicts himself, seeing he has driven it home several times. Further, if there is something internal and inherent in us by whose desert we lie under condemnation, why, not content with that desert and that condemnation, do we want another sin placed outside us to be immediately imputed? You will say: that it may be the cause of this internal thing, which otherwise we would lack. God then delights in this internal sin, seeing that without any necessity He freely imputes to us that sin placed outside us, so that by the force of that imputation that internal sin may be produced in us which otherwise could not be produced. Is this to glorify God, and not rather to make Him (which I cannot pronounce without horror of conscience) the author of our sin?

Latin

Deinde quorsum observat hoc loco, justitiam Christi propriam, non esse nostram nisi imputatione, si idem censet de peccato quod Adami est proprium, id similiter non esse nostrum nisi imputatione? Quid enim hoc facit ad discrimen inter Christum & Adamum explicandum? Quod si id non censet, sibi ipse contradicit, quippe qui id aliquoties inculcavit. Praeterea, si est aliquid in nobis internum & inhaerens cujus merito condemnationi subjacemus, cur eo merito eaque condemnatione non contenti, volumus aliud peccatum extra nos positum immediate imputari? Nempe, inquies, ut sit hujus interni causa, quo alioqui careremus. Delectatur igitur Deus hoc interno peccato, quippe qui sine ulla necessitate libere nobis illud extra nos positum peccatum imputat, ut vi illius imputationis producatur internum illud in nobis peccatum, quod alioqui non posset produci. Hoccine est glorificare Deum, & non potius eum facere, (quod sine horrore conscientiae pronunciare non possum,) autorem peccati nostri?

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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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