On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §419

Man. Post. Cap. VII: PLAC — immediate makes injustice follow; tip before Ezek 21

For that is why we are involved in the same condemnation and death with unjust Adam—because we ourselves are unjust in ourselves: but if immediate imputation, which alone I impugn, is in view, that is false; for the imputation precedes hereditary corruption as the penalty of the fault. So our injustice follows this kind of imputation and condemnation as effect, and does not precede as cause. We are not involved in the same condemnation with unjust Adam because we are unjust, but on the contrary we are unjust because we are involved in the same condemnation with unjust Adam: for so by imputation of the actual sin Adam committed we are made sinners—that is, guilty—and that that imputed sin may be punished we are made inherently unjust. If we remove this imputation or condemnation, Adam would be the guilty one, and we would be innocent. Therefore that imputation or condemnation, Abraham judging, clashes with God's justice. What the latter discrimination does for the matter at hand, I do not see.

Latin

Ideo enim eadem condemnatione & morte cum injusto Adamo involvimur, quoniam & ipsi in nobis ipsis injusti sumus: sed si de imputatione immediata, quam solam impugno, agitur, falsum est; antecedit enim imputatio corruptionem haereditariam ut culpae poenam. Itaque nostra injustitia huiusmodi imputationem & condemnationem sequitur ut effectum, non antecedit ut causa. Non ideo eadem cum injusto Adamo condemnatione involvimur, quia sumus injusti, sed contra ideo sumus injusti, quia eadem cum injusto Adamo condemnatione involvimur: ita enim sumus imputatione peccati actualis ab Adamo commissi peccatores, id est, rei, & ut puniatur imputatum nobis illud peccatum sumus inhaerenter injusti. Sepósita igitur hac imputatione seu condemnatione nocens est Adamus, nos innocentes. Quare illa imputatio seu condemnatio, judice Abrahamo, pugnat cum Dei justitia. Posterius discrimen quid ad rem faciat, de qua agitur, non video.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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