On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §670

Man. Post. Cap. X tip — GAR.3: distinguish Christ’s act from fruit; Adam’s act from reatus

ut the objection will easily be solved on both sides if we use a distinction.

For in Christ’s obedience the act is to be distinguished from the fruit, and existence from imputation.

For although that actual obedience no longer is, as to act and existence, yet it endures, and will persevere to the end of the age, as to imputation and fruit, insofar as by his obedience many are constituted righteous (Rom. 5:19).

So in that first sin of Adam it is fair to distinguish the act from the guilt: that we may say the act indeed did not last until the law, since it passed in a moment, but that the guilt will persevere to the end of the world, seeing that it descends upon each of Adam’s natural posterity.

For guilt came from one upon all unto condemnation (Rom. 5:16).

Latin

GAR. 3. Sed objectio facile utrinque solvetur si distinctione utamur. Nam in obedientia quidem Christi distinguendus est actus a fructu, & existentia ab imputatione. Etsi enim obedientia illa actualis non est amplius ratione actus & existentiae, perdurat tamen, & perseverabit usque ad finem seculi ratione imputationis & fructus, quatenus eius obedientia iusti constituuntur multi. Rom. v. 19. Sic in Adami peccato illo primo distingui par est actum a reatu: ut dicamus, actum quidem non durasse usque ad legem, cum momento transierit, sed reatum perseveraturum usque ad mundi finem, quippe cum descendat in unumquemque naturalium Adae posterorum: Reatus enim ex uno venit in omnes in condemnationem, Rom. v. 16.

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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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