On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §472

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: law detects sin; judicial imputation needs a law; tip Cap. IX

Next, if that actual sin is proximately imputed to all, and humans are bound to believe it, that imputation rests on some law, by whose help it must also be known, and that a very ancient one. Since therefore no such law occurs in the Old Testament, it must be confessed that there is no such imputation. Finally unbelieving Israelites who died before Christ's coming were judged according to the law which they received from God by the hand of Moses. But according to the law they could not be damned immediately for Adam's actual sin, nor could it be imputed to them, unless according to the law it could be established that that sin was the sin of each of them. The same must be said of all other humans. For every judicial imputation of sin and infliction of penalty is according to some law. But the immediate imputation of actual sin to all humans and the infliction of inhering vice, if, as you say, it is, is surely judicial. Therefore it is according to some law. Produce that law, then, if you can. None certainly can be found in any place of Scripture.

Latin

Deinde, si peccatum illud actuale omnibus imputatur proxime, idque tenentur homines credere, nititur imputatio illa lege aliqua, cuius etiam ope cognosci debet, eaque valde antiqua. Cum igitur nulla ejusmodi lex occurrat in veteri Testamento, nullam esse illam imputationem fatendum est. Denique Israelitae increduli, qui ante Christi adventum mortui sunt, judicati sunt secundum legem quam a Deo per manum Mosis acceperunt. Atqui secundum legem damnari non potuerunt immediate ob peccatum actuale Adami, nec ipsis illud imputari, nisi secundum legem constare potuerit id peccatum eorum singulorum fuisse peccatum. Idem de omnibus aliis hominibus dicendum. Fit enim omnis judiciaria imputatio peccati & inflictio poenae secundum aliquam legem. Atqui imputatio immediata peccati actualis omnibus hominibus & vitii inhaerentis inflictio, si, ut tu ais, est; utique judiciaria est. Fit igitur secundum aliquam legem. Eam ergo, si potes, profer. Nulla certe deprehendi potest in ullo loco scripturae.

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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.

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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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