On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §173

Man. Post. Cap. II §XIV: Placeus — first sin = actuale + habituale; controversy on immediate

But that, I say, is not enough. We must go further. Adam's first sin among all embraces two things: actual sin and habitual sin—the first of all actual sins, and the first of all habitual ones. The former passed; the latter remained and was propagated to posterity; and that it is imputed to us proximately or immediately, since it is within us, no non-Pelagian doubts. About the other—whether it is imputed immediately—the whole controversy among us has been raised. Because that distinction did not leap to mind as soon as a hearer heard "Adam's first sin" named, and because it mattered much for deciding the question, it had to be set before the reader's eyes.

Latin

At, inquam, hoc non sufficit. Progredi longius oportet. Peccatum enim Adami inter omnia primum duo complectitur, peccatum actuale, & peccatum habituale: illud omnium peccatorum actualium, hoc omnium habitualium primum: illud transiit, hoc mansit, & in posteros propagatum est, & quin nobis proxime seu immediate, cum intra nos sit, imputetur, nemo non Pelagianus ambigit. De altero illo an imputetur immediate, omnis est inter nos excitata controversia. Haec distinctio, quia audienti nominari primum Adae peccatum non statim veniebat in mentem, multumque habebat ad decidendam quaestionem momenti, constituenda fuit ob oculos Lectoris.

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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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