On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §444

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: hereditary vice conceded; missing third — natural propagation

So you press further. Now, you say, I assume that first sin which sentenced all men to penalty is common to all, either by their own act, or by imputation: Not by their own act, because Adam alone actually sinned. Therefore by imputation, because namely it is imputed to all. Why did you omit the third member so greatly sung against the Pelagians—or by natural propagation? For it is established that the first sin passed into us (not as it was a transient action, but as it was aversion from God and conversion to creatures as to the ultimate end, remaining in Adam)—passed, I say, not by an imputation which is outside us, but by true communication and propagation.

Latin

Itaque longius proveheris. Jam, inquis, assumo, primum illud peccatum quod omnes homines addixit poenae commune est omnibus, vel actu proprio, vel imputatione: Non actu proprio, quia solus Adamus actu peccavit. Ergo imputatione, quia scilicet omnibus imputatur. Cur tertium membrum omisisti tantopere adversus Pelagianos decantatum, vel propagatione naturali? Constat enim primum peccatum in nos transiisse (non qua fuit actio transiens, sed qua fuit aversio a Deo & conversio ad creaturas ut ad finem ultimum, permanens in Adamo) transiisse inquam non imputatione quae extra nos est, sed vera communicatione & propagatione.

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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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