On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §424

Man. Post. Cap. VII: GAR Abraham's scruple; PLAC — strong assertions, judicial plea

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GAR. 2. To Abraham this rule was indeed certain and unmoved, which no believer fails to acknowledge—that it can never at all come to pass that God should appoint anything unjust: but in the special case he could not see how this slaughter of innocents could agree with God's justice. He asks, therefore, not with a mind to resist, but that he may clear this scruple for himself, whether God is about to destroy the just with the wicked. So. PLAC. Are those then the words of one doubting, or simply asking: Far be it from you to do any such thing, delivering the just to death with the unjust, so that it should be with the just as with the unjust: Far be it from you. Shall the Judge of all the earth not do right? What are vehement and strong assertions, as certain and undoubted, if these are not? He knew for certain, then, both that God cannot appoint anything iniquitous, and that it is not just before God as judge that the just and the unjust be damned alike; and so he begged this one thing—not only that God should not damn the just for the sake of the unjust, which seemed to him too alien from God's justice, but that for the sake of a few just he should spare even the unjust, or at least the place or city itself, which seemed not unworthy of God's highest goodness. For the matter was not about any chastisement whatever, but about judicial punishment, and in a manner eternal: of which kind of punishment it is certain the just are never punished for the sake of the unjust.

Latin

GAR. 2. Abrahamo certa quidem fuit & immota haec regula quam nullus fidelis non agnoscit, fieri nunquam omnino posse, ut Deus injuste quidquam designet: sed in speciali videre non poterat, quomodo haec innocentium clades cum justitia Dei convenire posset. Quaerit ergo non obluctandi animo, sed ut hunc scrupulum sibi eximat, an Deus justum perditurus sit cum impio. Sic. PLAC. Suntne igitur illa verba dubitantis, aut simpliciter quaerentis, Abfit tibi ut facias tale quidpiam, morti tradendo justum cum injusto, ut ita sit justo sicut injusto: Abfit tibi. An judex totius terrae non exerceret jus? Quae sunt assertiones vehementes ac fortes, tanquam certae & indubitatae, si hae non sunt? Certe igitur sciebat, nec Deum posse quicquam inique designare, nec justum esse apud Deum judicem, ut pariter justus ac injustus damnetur, itaque hoc unum flagitabat, non modo ut Deus justos propter impios non damnaret, id quod ei videbatur nimis a Dei justitia alienum, sed ut propter paucos justos parceret vel impiis, vel saltem ipsi loco seu urbi, id quod Dei bonitatem summam non dedecere videbatur. Agebatur enim non de qualicunque castigatione, sed de poena judiciaria, & quodammodo aeterna: cuiusmodi poena certum est nunquam justos propter impios puniri.

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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