Cap. XII: Blancus 1648 — Omnes peccaverunt in Adam; Conf. XI denied
You see this vice is truly sin, that it makes every man liable to eternal death before God unless it is forgiven—that it is imputed—and will you still deny we need Christ's merits imputed to be justified from it? So our opponents in this cause are guilty of the very charge they falsely lay on us: they leave the received doctrine. When he adds how excellent and wonderful our whole evangelical justification would look—yet from these φρονημάτα it must either fall wholly or at least become useless—you see, Reader, how false and slanderous that is. The same befell the distinguished D. Stephen Blancus, whose Theological Disputation on the soul's origin and how original sin is propagated appeared in 1648. In Thesis XLII he argues: all sinned by the sin that entered the world through one man; yet not in their own person, for they did not yet exist; therefore they sinned in Adam, for in him they died (1 Cor. 15:22). The conclusion could stand if rightly taken; but the minor looks like nothing but a denial of what article XI asserts in our Churches. He denies that the vice is the sin which entered the world—that is, all men—through one man; yet that article says the vice is truly sin and makes every human being liable to eternal death before God, which it could not do unless it had entered every human being.
Latin
Vides hoc vitium esse vere peccatum, omnes homines aeternae mortis reos coram Deo peragere, nisi condonetur, imputari, & negabis nobis opus esse imputatione meritorum Christi ut justificemur ab hoc vitio? Ita qui nobis in hac causa adversantur ejus culpae rei sunt, cujus nos falso accusant: discedunt enim a recepta doctrina. Quod ergo addit, O sic tota illa nostrae justificationis evangelicae doctrina, quam eximia, quam admiranda! ex horum φρονημάτων aut corruet tota, aut saltem inutilis reddetur; cernis, ut opinor, Lector, quam falsum & calumniosum sit. Idem accidit Clarissimo viro D. Steph. Blanco, cujus Disputatio Theologica de animae humanae origine, & modo quo propagatur peccatum originale prodiit in lucem eodem anno 1648. Is enim Th. XLII. sic disputat. Omnes peccaverunt peccato scilicet illo, quod per unum hominem introiit in mundum; at non peccaverunt peccato illo in sua persona, quia non extiterunt. Ergo peccaverunt in Adamo, quippe in quo mortui sunt I. Cor. 15. 22. Quanquam enim admitti posset conclusio, si recte intelligeretur; tamen minor propositio nihil aliud esse videtur, quam eius negatio, quod articulo illo XI. ab Ecclesiis nostris asseritur. Negat enim vitium illud esse peccatum quod per unum hominem in mundum, id est, in omnes homines introiit, quod tamen vitium in illo articulo & vere peccatum esse, & omnes & singulos homines reos mortis aeternae coram Deo peragere dicitur; quod efficere non posset, nisi in omnes & singulos homines introiisset.