On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §502

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — singular act ≠ introire/imputari; tip before GAR Resp. 1

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Next it is plain that Adam's actual sin, since it was a singular action, and, as you yourself speak, personal, which as soon as it was passed away, could not have entered into all humans. Nor can you reply that that singular action and one in number, committed so long before we were born, entered into all humans by imputation: for who ever heard by report that this phrase, to enter into someone, signifies to be imputed to someone? Do not, I ask, to defend your opinion do violence to the word of God. That action of Adam was never inside us, but neither was its imputation, which if any existed would be God's action remaining inside God, not inside us. If you shall say that that action of Adam by which his actual sin was, is said to have entered into us, not indeed by reason of itself, but by reason of the penalty which it earned for us, namely of hereditary corruption, first again you abuse the verb of entering: for it is one thing for the penalty of sin, another for sin, to enter into someone. Our sins were imputed to Christ our surety, yet no one will say that through us sins entered into Christ, although he took their penalty upon himself.

Latin

Deinde planum est peccatum actuale Adami, cum actio fuerit singularis, &, ut tu ipse loqueris, personalis, quae simul ac fuit praeteriit, non potuisse in omnes homines ingredi. Neque potes respondere actionem illam singularem & numero unicam tanto antequam nasceremur admissam in omnes homines imputatione introiisse: quis enim unquam fando audivit hanc phrasim, in aliquem introire, significare, alicui imputari? Noli, quaeso, ut tuam sententiam tuearis vim facere Dei verbo. Actio illa Adami nunquam intra nos fuit, sed neque eius imputatio, quae si ulla esset, Dei actio esset intra Deum manens, non intra nos. Si dixeris actionem illam Adami qua peccatum eius actuale fuit, introiisse in nos dici, non quidem ratione sui, sed ratione poenae quam est nobis commerita, videlicet corruptionis haereditariae, primum rursus abuteris verbo introeundi: nam aliud est poenam peccati aliud peccatum in aliquem intrare. Imputata sunt peccata nostra Christo vadi nostro, nemo tamen dixerit per nos peccata in Christum introiisse, quamvis eorum poenam in se susceperit.

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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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