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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §405

Man. Post. Cap. VII: GAR — singular/universal by representation; volition only

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GAR. Yet let us see whether that way of gathering, as it can have praise as a joking quibble, so has solidity. For I answer that that will of Adam of which we speak was both singular and universal: singular by the property of the act; universal by right of representation. Singular, because it proceeded from one of the human individuals; universal, because that individual represented the whole race, so that when he first sinned by his will it was the same as if all had sinned by their own proper will. 2. When we say Adam's will was the will of all, we do not speak of will as signifying that faculty of willing which was in Adam from nature's principles and without which he would not even have been a man: but by the name of will we understand volition, or that act of willing which he exercised about the fruit of the forbidden tree and by which he made himself guilty of that first disobedience. Nor do we say that act of willing was everyone's properly, formally, or personally, but interpretatively and by imputation. So the little conclusions thence woven—that Adam's soul, body, wife were ours; that we have two wills, souls, bodies, and are two men—someone may put in the place where the learned man wanted the Theologians' saying held.

Latin

GAR. Videamus tamen, an ista colligendi ratio, ut jocularis argutiola laudem habere potest, ita soliditatis habeat. Etenim respondeo, eam Adami voluntatem, de qua loquimur, & singularem fuisse, & universalem. Singularem actus proprietate; universalem repraesentationis jure. Singularem, quia ab uno ex individuis humanis profecta est: universalem, quia individuum illud repraesentavit universum genus, ut eo per voluntatem suam primum peccante, idem fuerit, ac si omnes per propriam suam voluntatem peccassent. 2. Voluntatem Adae cum dicimus fuisse voluntatem omnium, non loquimur de voluntate prout significat facultatem illam volendi, quae Adamo ex naturae principiis inerat, & sine qua ne homo quidem fuisset: sed voluntatis nomine intelligimus volitionem, sive actum illum volendi quem exercuit circa fructum arboris vetitae, & quo se reum fecit inobedientiae illius primae. Neque dicimus actum illum volendi fuisse omnium proprie, formaliter, aut personaliter, sed interpretative & per imputationem. Itaque quae inde nectuntur conclusiunculae, Adami animam, corpus, uxorem fuisse nostra; nos habere duas voluntates, animas, corpora, & esse duos homines, eo loco possit habere aliquis, quo haberi voluit vir doctus illud Theologorum effatum.

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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