On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §706

Man. Post. Cap. X tip — if Mosaic shadows are types, so are paradise and the trees

the learned man taking so much pains to prove that the law about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—which was nowhere else than in the earthly paradise, and for some thousands of years now has ceased to be in the nature of things—has not been antiquated.

But he observes a difference between this first ceremonial law and the Mosaic ceremonies which is none, and ought to avail to confirm rather than to overturn my argument.

For if the legal ceremonies were types shadowing the things revealed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the same is to be concluded about that ancient ceremony.

For were not Adam, and Eve, and the earthly paradise, and the tree of life which was in its midst, shadows whose truth and body is in Christ, or at least pertains to his doctrine?

What is there, then, why the same should not be held about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

Latin

PLAC. Misere me Viri docti tantum operae sumentis, ut probet legem de arbore scientiae boni & mali, quae nusquam alibi fuit quam in paradiso terrestri, & iam ab aliquot annorum millibus esse desiit in rerum natura, non esse antiquatam. Observat autem discrimen inter hanc primam legem ceremonialem, & Mosaicas ceremonias, quod nullum est, & ad confirmandum potius quam evertendum argumentum meum valere debet. Nam si ceremoniae legales erant typi adumbrantes ea quae Iesu Christi Evangelio revelata sunt, idem de ceremonia illa antiqua conficiendum est. Nonne enim & Adamus, & Eva, & paradisus terrestris, & arbor vitae, quae in eius erat medio, umbrae fuerunt quarum veritas & corpus est in Christo, aut saltem ad eius doctrinam pertinet? Quid est igitur, cur non idem sentiatur de arbore scientiae boni & mali?

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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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