On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §705

Man. Post. Cap. X: GAR — Mosaic rites point to Christ; the primal ceremony did not

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GAR. Meanwhile it is not to be thought that that argumentation is legitimate: that the legal ceremonies have been abrogated; that this is a ceremonial law; and so abrogated and abolished.

For legal ceremonies, when they are named here, are without doubt understood as those ritual or ceremonial statutes which God constituted for Israel by the hand of Moses; whence they are also commonly called Mosaic ceremonies.

That they were abrogated at Christ’s coming is no wonder, since they were shadows and figures whose truth and body is in Christ (Colossians 2:17).

For they all looked to Christ as to their complement.

But the ceremony which was in this primitive law did not look to Christ as to its significate.

Hence it does not follow that if those Israelite ceremonies have been antiquated, it must be concluded by that very fact that that primordial law has also been abrogated, so that there is no longer any use of it, and it in no way looks to humans.

Latin

GAR. Interim non est quod putemus legitimam esse illam argumentationem: legales ceremonias esse abrogatas; hanc esse legem ceremonialem; itaque abrogatam abolitamque. Nam legales ceremoniae, cum hic nominantur, sine dubitatione intelliguntur statuta illa ritualia sive ceremonalia, quae sunt a Deo Israeli constituta per manum Mosis; unde & ceremoniae Mosaicae vulgo dicuntur. Eas Christi adventu abrogatas fuisse nihil mirum est, cum umbrae essent & figurae quarum veritas & corpus est in Christo, Coloss. 2. 17. Respiciebant enim omnes ad Christum tanquam ad complementum suum. At ceremonia, quae in hac primitiva lege inerat, ad Christum non respiciebat tanquam ad significatum suum. Unde non consequitur, ut si ceremoniae illae Israeliticae antiquatae sunt, concludendum sit eo ipso, etiam abrogatam esse legem illam primordialem, ita ut nullus sit amplius eius usus, & ad homines nulla ratione spectet.

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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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