On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §107

Cap. X: Opponent parental-crime syllogism; immediate vs mediate; Pighius warn

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Whoever, he says, are deprived of those benefits which those parents had received both for themselves and for their children because of some actual crime of the parents — those people suffer the penalties of the father's crime, and so the father's crime is imputed to them. But all Adam's posterity, because of that first disobedience of his by which he polluted himself, are deprived of those benefits which Adam had received for himself and for his posterity — namely, natural justice and uprightness. Therefore all Adam's natural posterity suffer the penalties of the father's crime, and so that paternal crime is imputed to them. What if I grant this conclusion? For paternal crime is understood either as the hereditary vice, or as the cause of that vice — Adam's actual disobedience. If the former, it is imputed, and indeed immediately. If the latter, that too is imputed, but by means of the inherent vice. We suffer the penalties proximately for our own sin propagated into us, and remotely for the sin once committed by Adam. But if someone says that we are all born liable to Adam's transgression immediately — that is, not because of any vice or fault or depravity that we have in ourselves — let him remember that this was Pighius's error as Peter Martyr explained it, and as it was chiefly confuted by these arguments. Consider them, reader, if you please, and whether they do not fight against D. Garissoles's sentence and arguments.

Latin

Qui, inquit, propter parentum crimen actuale aliquod, iis beneficiis privantur, quae parentes illi & pro se & pro liberis suis acceperant; illi paterni criminis poenas luunt, atque adeo paternum crimen illis imputatur. Atqui posteri omnes Adami propter primam illam ejus inobedientiam qua se polluit, privantur iis beneficiis, quae Adamus pro se & pro posteris suis acceperat, nimirum, justitia & rectitudine naturali. Ergo posteri omnes naturales Adami paterni criminis poenas luunt, adeoque paternum illis crimen imputatur. Quid si hanc conclusionem concedam? Paternum enim crimen vel vitium haereditarium intelligitur, vel causa illius vitii, actualis inobedientia Adami. Si prius, imputatur, & quidem immediate. Si posterius, imputatur id quoque, sed mediante inhaerente vitio. Luimus poenas proxime peccati nostri in nos propagati, remote vero peccati ab Adamo olim admissi. Quod si dicat aliquis, nos omnes transgressioni Adae nasci obnoxios, immediate, hoc est, non propter aliquod vitium, aut culpam, aut depravationem, quam in nobis habeamus, is meminerit sic fuisse Pighii errorem a Petro Martyre explicatum: atque his argumentis in primis confutatum: quae considera, Lector, si placet, annon pugnent cum D. G. sententia & argumentis.

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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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