On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §268

Man. Post. Cap. V: no consent to singular act; hereditary → mediate; tip before Cap. VI

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Consider with me, then, I ask, and weigh how that first actual sin can be imputed to us truly or falsely, justly or unjustly. It was a certain singular action, which could not make a man guilty except as one commanding, or executing, or consenting. But we neither commanded it, nor advised Adam to it, nor ourselves—who did not yet exist—committed it, nor consented to it in act, either before we were, or while we lay hidden in the mother's womb. Tell me, then, I beg you, how it is truly and justly attributed and ascribed to each of us? If you answer that that hereditary vice, which flowed into us as produced from that action, is as it were the remnants and seed of that sin, and a habitual—so to speak—consent of our will, and that therefore it is justly imputed to us, you will come down to my opinion, who freely acknowledge and teach mediate imputation, which follows hereditary corruption and is founded in it.

Latin

Considera igitur mecum, quaeso, & perpende, quomodo nobis peccatum illud primum actuale, possit imputari vere an falso, juste an injuste? Fuit actio quaedam singularis, quae non potuit reum peragere, nisi aut imperantem, aut exequentem, aut consentientem. Eam autem neque imperavimus, aut suasimus Adamo, neque ipsi, qui non eramus, commisimus, neque ei, vel antequam essemus, vel in utero materno delitescentes actu consensimus. Dic igitur, amabo te, quomodo nobis vere & juste singulis attribuatur & adscribatur? Si respondeas, vitium illud haereditarium, quod ab illa actione productum in nos manavit, esse peccati illius veluti reliquias & semen, & habitualem, ut ita loquar, voluntatis nostrae consensum; Itaque jure nobis imputari, descendes in meam sententiam, qui imputationem mediatam, quae haereditariam corruptionem sequatur, & in ea fundata sit, ultro agnosco, & doceo.

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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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