On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §351

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR extra causam; PLAC not extra — poena in Adam vs in us

t, what is said here of the stain or corruption inhering in Adam himself and proceeding from his actual sin is outside the present cause, where nothing else is treated than that we may know whether, apart from imputation of the first sin and consideration of God's singular judgment, a fit cause can be given of that outflow by which moral corruption is propagated from Adam into all. means certainly are the things said here by me outside the present cause: for it is also treated that we may know why the first sin, rather than other sins, corrupted Adam's nature. For those who oppose me in this cause ascribe that no less to God's will than the outflow of that corruption into posterity. From there also an argument rises for me: for if the corruption inhering in Adam was not a punishment properly so called, but followed the actual sin necessarily, as the terminus follows the motion toward which it tends, it is consentaneous to reason that the same inhering in us is not a punishment properly so called either. For why would Adam's sin be punished in us by that evil with which it was not punished in Adam?

Latin

GAR. Primum, quae de labe seu corruptione in ipso Adamo haerente, & ex actuali ipsius peccato profecta hic dicuntur, sunt extra causam praesentem, ubi non aliud agitur, quam ut norimus, an citra imputationem peccati primi, singularis Dei judicii considerationem, idonea causa reddi possit dimanationis eius, qua corruptio moralis ex Adamo in omnes propagatur. PLAC. Nequaquam certe quae hic a me dicuntur, sunt extra causam praesentem: agitur enim etiam ut norimus, quare primum peccatum, potius quam alia peccata, corruperit naturam Adami. Id enim qui mihi in hac causa adversantur non minus Dei voluntati ascribunt, quam illius corruptionis dimanationem in posteros. Inde etiam mihi exoritur argumentum: nam si corruptio in Adamo haerens non fuit poena proprie dicta, sed secuta est necessario peccatum actuale, ut terminus ad quem sequitur motum, consentaneum est rationi, ut eadem nobis inhaerens, non sit etiam poena proprie dicta. Cur enim puniretur in nobis peccatum Adami eo malo, quo punitum non fuit in Adamo?

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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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