On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §60

Cap. VII: No circular proof — death entered with its cause, not unique imputed act

And yet the most learned author of that reason did not say that the Apostle in verse 12 is proving that all are sentenced to death. Reread, I ask, and consider the reason as it had been recited by Garissoles himself at § XI and copied out by me. Do you notice anything of the kind in it? Or can a sound consequence be drawn from it? Why indeed would the Apostle have set about proving what Scripture, and the experience of every age, and the whole human race besides, forever confess and cry aloud? Who also would believe that the Apostle meant to prove the clearer by the obscurer? For that all die is clearer than that all have sinned. He does not, therefore, prove; but lest all men should seem to die on account of one man's one sin imputed to them, he affirms that through one man death so entered the human race that not death alone invaded all men, but also its cause — sin. And so all die not immediately on account of that one actual sin of one man, but on account of each man's own implanted in him, derived from that one. Doctor Garissoles therefore invents a circular proof where there is none.

Latin

Atqui non dixit illius rationis eruditissimus autor, Apostolum versu 12. probare, omnes esse addictos morti? Relege quaeso & considera rationem, quemadmodum ab ipso Garissolio recitata fuerat § XI. & a me exscripta. Num tale quid in ea animadvertis? aut ex ea bona consequentia deduci potest? Eccur vero Apostolus id probare instituisset, quod Scriptura, & omnium seculorum experientia, genusque adeo humanum universum perpetuo confitetur & clamat? Ecquis etiam credat, Apostolum probare voluisse clarius per obscurius? Clarius enim est omnes mori, quam omnes peccasse. Non igitur probat, sed ne viderentur omnes homines ob unicum unius hominis peccatum eis imputatum mori, affirmat per unum hominem ita mortem ingressam esse in genus humanum, ut non sola in omnes homines invaserit, sed ejus etiam causa, peccatum. Itaque mori omnes non proxime ob unum illud actuale unius hominis peccatum, sed ob suum quemque sibi insitum, ab illo derivatum. Fingit ergo D. G. probationem circularem ubi nulla est.

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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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