On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §274

Man. Post. Cap. VI: GAR 3 origin+representation; PLAC origin ≠ representation

ll are said to have been one man in Adam not by specific or numeric unity, but by unity of origin—because all are of one blood, Acts 17:26, and every earthly man is by origin nothing but Adam, as Augustine speaks, Retractations Book 1, chapter 13—and by unity of representation: for by one Adam all were represented, because one Adam sustained the person of all, as theologians also teach with one consent, and as the most distinguished Amyraut does not deny in the Theses on the three covenants, Thesis 8. From that double unity the imputation of Adam's sin is gathered. Owledge unity of origin—although it is one thing for all men to be one man, or to be considered as one man, and another for all men to have one origin, that is, stock or principle. The latter follows from unity of origin, not the former. But I desire unity of representation to be proved to me from Scripture, and likewise that which is brought forward in place of proof, that one Adam by sinning sustained the person of all men. For I long to know whence that very thing is had. It is posited by some, but proved by no one.

Latin

GAR. 3. Unus homo dicuntur omnes in Adamo fuisse, non unitate vel specifica, vel numerica, sed tum unitate originis; quia omnes ex uno sunt sanguine, Actor. XVII. 26. & omnis homo terrenus nihil est origine, nisi Adam, ut loquitur Augustinus Retract. Lib. 1. cap. 13. Tum unitate repraesentationis: ab uno enim Adamo sunt omnes repraesentati, quia unus Adamus omnium personam sustinebat, ut & Theologi consentienter docent, & non diffitetur Clariss. Amyraldus Thesib. de trib. foeder. Thes. 8. Ex illa duplici unitate colligitur peccati Adae imputatio. PLAC. Agnosco unitatem originis: quanquam aliud est omnes homines esse unum hominem, aut considerari tanquam unum hominem, aliud omnium hominum esse unam originem, hoc est, stirpem, seu principium. Hoc ex unitate originis sequitur, non illud. Sed unitatem repraesentationis probari mihi e Scriptura cupio, ut & illud quod affertur probationis loco, unum Adamum peccando omnium hominum personam sustinuisse. Hoc enim ipsum unde habeatur, scire aveo. Ponitur enim a quibusdam, sed probatur a nemine.

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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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