On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §290

Man. Post. Cap. VI: other Adam sins / Rom. 5 / Seth–Noah tip

Meanwhile I ask: while he was committing other sins (for you will scarcely deny that he committed them), was he not even then the first man, the origin, stock, or root of all men? That he was, you will doubtless grant: were those also, then, considered in the same way, and by God's just judgment imputed to all men? If you deny, you must confess that this reason of the consideration, judgment, and imputation of the first sin which you brought forward is not this—because Adam was the first man, and the origin and stock of all men. If you affirm, the Apostle in Romans 5 will refute you, inculcating the unity of the sin as much as the unity of the man. I would also gladly ask about Seth, about Noah, and other such stocks of the whole human race that remains, whether their sins also were in the same way both considered and imputed to posterity. If they were, the Apostle in Romans 5 ought to have said many men, not one, and we, before we are born, are most wretched, who have committed so many sins. If they were not, I ask the reason of the distinction: but I fear I may be longer in this place than is necessary.

Latin

Interim quaero dum alia peccata committeret (commisisse enim haud dubie non negabis) an non fuerit etiam tum primus homo, origo, stirps, seu radix omnium hominum? Fuisse proculdubio concedas: fueruntne igitur ea quoque eodem modo considerata, & justo Dei judicio omnibus hominibus imputata? Si negas, fatearis oportet hujus considerationis judicii & imputationis primi peccati, quam protulisti in medium, rationem hanc non esse, quia Adam primus homo fuit, & origo, & stirps omnium hominum. Si affirmas, Revincet te Apostolus Rom. v. tam unitatem peccati quam hominis unitatem inculcans. Quaererem etiam libenter de Setho, de Noacho, aliisque ejusmodi stirpibus totius, quod extat, generis humani, num eorum quoque peccata eodem modo fuerint & considerata, & imputata posteris? Si fuerunt, multos homines dicere debuit Apostolus Rom. v. non unum, &, nos antequam nascamur miserrimi, qui tot peccata commisimus. Si non fuerunt, discriminis peto rationem: sed vereor ne sim longior hoc loco quam necesse est.

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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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