On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §364

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC permission reason; decree not-impede ≠ punish-impute

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PLAC. Of the imputation of the father's sin—not to the cause the learned man is driving, but to mine, who wished to give a reason why God permitted the propagation of sin. For not only was he not bound to hinder nature's course, but that he might not hinder it, laws constituted before the fall stood in the way, and the very sins of begetters deserving desertion. But this counsel or judgment, since it regards begetters insofar as they are to be permitted their nature, can somehow be said to regard the begotten: yet it is not therefore a judgment by which the begetter's sin is imputed to the one being begotten. For one thing is a decree of not hindering sin, or the contagion or outflow of sin from parent into children; another is a decree of inflicting punishment according to the law's threat.

Latin

PLAC. De peccati patris imputatione non ad causam quam agit vir doctus, sed ad meam, qui reddere rationem volui, cur Deus propagationem peccati permiserit. Non modo enim non tenebatur impedire naturae cursum, sed ne impediret, obstabant constitutae ante lapsum leges, & ipsa generantium peccata desertionem promerentia. Hoc autem consilium seu judicium, cum spectet ad generantes eatenus sua naturae permittendos, aliquomodo ad genitos spectare dici potest: nec tamen propterea est judicium, quo generantis peccatum imputatur generando. Nam aliud est decretum de non impediendo peccato, aut peccati contagio seu dimanatione a parente in liberos, aliud decretum de irroganda secundum legis comminationem poena.

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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