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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §191

Man. Post. Cap. II §XIX: Garissoles — Alio colore / three modes; habitus imputation charge

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Garissoles: They next dress this later imputation in fresh paint: nothing, they say, blocks calling Adam's sin imputed to us inasmuch as our hereditary vice is a habit the first actual sin left in Adam's soul; next, an inclination toward like sins; third, habitual consent to that sin. He lifted those words from my second letter to him—then slipped in of his own 'inasmuch as,' 'next,' and 'third,' carving one joined reason into three against my sense. Here is the whole French-letter place. Adam's sin may be said imputed to us his posterity three ways. First: as Calvin hints (naming Adam's sin the vice that flowed from him into us), it is inside us. Second: hereditary vice makes us as worthy of eternal death as Adam, so nothing stops saying Adam's sin is imputed in the Apostle's sense—if someone has kept the law, his foreskin is imputed for circumcision (Romans 2:26), i.e. he is counted as circumcised. Third: hereditary corruption is the habit the first sin left in Adam's soul, plus a bent toward a like sin, and so habitual consent to that sin—I see no bar to saying it is imputed to us. That last mode, that last reason, the learned man has shredded into three and warped with 'inasmuch as.' Hear him. Garissoles: First wonder: they grant Adam's sin imputed inasmuch as our corruption is a habit left in Adam's soul. The wording seems to favor imputing Adam's habitual sin itself. What could be worse—when we speak of imputing Adam's actual sin—than confessing by these words that a habitual sin is imputed? Especially when imputation looks to acts, not habits.

Latin

GAR. Alio deinde colore hanc posteriorem suam imputationem pingunt, cum addunt, nihil obstare, quominus Adami peccatum nobis imputari dicatur, quatenus vitium nostrum haereditarium habitus est, quem primum actuale peccatum reliquit in Adami anima; deinde inclinatio ad similia peccata; tertio consensus habitualis ad illud peccatum. Haec verba ex secunda, quam ad eum scripseram, epistola Vir Doctus deprompsit: sed de suo addidit voces quatenus, deinde, tertio, dividens ea quae conjunxi, ac ex una ratione tres conficiens praeter mentem meam. Locum ex illa epistola Gallice scripta integrum exscribam. Peccatum Adami dici potest nobis ejus posteris imputari tribus modis. Primo, quia (ut innuit Calvinus, vitium quod ab Adamo in nos defluxit peccatum Adami vocans) intra nos est. Secundo, quia cum vitium haereditarium nos aeque morte aeterna dignos ac Adamum faciat, nihil obstat, quominus peccatum Adami nobis eo sensu dicatur imputari, quo dixit Apostolus, si quis legem servaverit, illius praeputium in circuncisionem imputari, hoc est, eodem loco eum haberi ac si fuisset circumcissus. Tertio, quia corruptio haereditaria est habitus, quem primum peccatum in Adami anima reliquit, & perversa inclinatio ad simile peccatum; ac proinde consensus habitualis ad illud peccatum, nihil video quod impediat, quominus nobis imputari dicatur. Hunc ultimum modum, hanc ultimam rationem, Vir Doctus in tres discerpsit, ac mutat quia in quatenus. Sed eum audiamus. GAR. Ubi primum illud mirari subit, quod imputari agnoscunt peccatum Adae, quatenus corruptio nostra est habitus in Adami anima relictus. Haec enim verba praeferre videntur imputationem ipsius habitualis peccati Adae. Quid autem horridius aut absurdius est, in eo quod dicimus, imputari nobis peccatum Adami actuale, quam quod his verbis fatentur, imputari peccatum habituate? praesertim cum imputatio potius ad actus videatur referenda quam ad habitus?

About this text

Josue de la Place (Placeus) — Capita I–XIV partial of De imputatione primi peccati Adami from the 1661 Saumur Latin, through Man. Post. Caput X (GAR.1–3 Rom. 5.13 tip) / before PLAC on reatus-only. Honest partial; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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.

Catalogue & scope

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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