On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §197

Man. Post. Cap. II GAR: habitual consent syllogism; Rom 1:32

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Garissoles: What is said last about habitual consent bears more on the present point—yet it overturns the Doctors' cause more than it secures it. They press hard that Adam's own actual disobedience is imputed to none of his posterity, that no one bears its penalties, that no one can be held guilty for it—and yet they admit that in all Adam's posterity there is habitual consent to that sin. Who does not see the sequel: that first parent's disobedience can therefore justly be imputed to the posterity? For consent to another's sin can be a just cause for imputing that sin, by the Apostle's word that they are worthy of death not only who do evils themselves, but also who consent to those who do them (Romans 1:32). Hence this argument: Every consent to another's sin can be a just cause for imputing that sin. But the habitual consent of all Adam's posterity is some consent to Adam's first actual sin. Therefore habitual consent can be a just reason and cause why Adam's first sin is imputed to all his posterity.

Latin

GAR. De habituali consensu quod ultimo loco dicitur, ad rem praesentem magis pertinet, sed tale tamen est, ut Virorum Doctorum causam evertat potius quam stabiliat. Contendunt enim acriter ipsam Adami actualem inobedientiam nemini posterorum imputari, neminem ejus poenas ferre, neminem propter eam reum haberi posse, & tamen fatentur esse in omnibus Adami posteris consensum habitualem ad illud peccatum. Quis non inde consequi videt, eam igitur inobedientiam primi parentis merito posse posteris imputari? Nam consensus in peccatum alterius, justa causa esse potest imputationis illius peccati, juxta dictum Apostolicum, esse dignos morte, non modo qui mala ipsi patrant, sed & qui mala patrantibus consentiunt. Rom. 1. 32. Unde colligitur haec argumentatio. Omnis consensus in alienum peccatum, justa causa esse potest imputationis illius peccati. At consensus habitualis omnium posterorum Adae, est aliquis consensus in peccatum actuale primum Adami. Ergo consensus habitualis, justa ratio & causa esse potest, quare primum Adami peccatum omnibus ipsius posteris imputetur.

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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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