On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §624

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — Cap. 2 §17: common/immediate prior to each person's existence and corruption

And a little later he says: "But with human nature existing in that principal individual, men can also be said to have existed commonly in him." Existed, that is, distant and separate from Adam's person? I do not think anyone will say that. And Cap. 2 §17: "That common or immediate imputation," he says, "just as it was later than Adam's first actual transgression, so it was prior to the personal existence of each man born of Adam, and so also to that corruption which descends into individuals by natural generation, insofar as from the beginning all flowed commonly in Adam."

Latin

Et paulo post inquit: Existente autem humana natura in individuo illo principiali, in illo etiam dici possunt homines communiter extitisse. Extiteruntne scilicet a persona Adami distantes & separati? Non arbitror quenquam hoc dicturum. Et Cap. 2. §. xvii. Communis, inquit, illa sive immediata, quemadmodum posterior fuit prima actuali Adami transgressione, ita prior fuit personali cuiuscumque hominis ex Adamo prognati existentia atque adeo etiam corruptione illa quae in singulos naturali generatione descendit, quatenus ab initio resuerunt omnes communiter in Adamo.

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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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