On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §175

Man. Post. Cap. II §XIV: Placeus — coincide in imputation; differ modo loquendi

Placeus: I thank the learned man for allowing nothing I say to go without fruit. Still, I hope this distinction will not lack its fruit in due time and place. The second and third senses do coincide in the same imputation, but they differ in how they are expressed and are diverse senses of the same name. I meant to distinguish the name, not the thing itself. If one true—that Adam's sin can be divided into the first actual sin and the first habitual sin, then Adam's sin taken in the second sense must be divided: the first member of the division will be Adam's sin taken in the first sense, and the second member Adam's sin in the third. Add the corruption propagated into us, commonly called old Adam and able to be called Adam's sin as well, and you have all the senses I listed—so there is no reason to reject them with such zeal.

Latin

PLAC. Magnas habeo Viro docto gratias non patienti quicquam a me dici absque fructu. Quanquam fructu, uti spero, non carebit haec distinctio suo tempore & loco. Coincidunt quidem secunda & tertia acceptio in eandem imputationem, sed differunt modo loquendi, & sunt eiusdem nominis acceptiones diversae. Distinguere autem nomen, non rem ipsam, volui. Si quis dicat, id quod verum est, peccatum Adae dividi posse in primum peccatum actuale, & primum peccatum habituale; dividendum erit peccatum Adae acceptum secundo modo: divisi primum membrum erit peccatum Adae sumptum primo modo, & secundum membrum erit peccatum Adae tertio modo. Quibus si addas propagatam in nos corruptionem, quae vetus Adam solet nuncupari, etiam peccatum Adae vocari posse, habebis omnes illas acceptiones quas enumeravi, nihil ut sit, quare tanto conatu rejiciantur.

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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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