On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §360

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Calvin — nature vs judgment; counsel not forensic impute

alvin opposes nature to God's judgment in this business, he does not do it so as to deny that corruption flowed by natural propagation from Adam into posterity, nor by God's judgment does he understand a forensic imputation of Adam's actual sin, or an infliction of punishment. We say, he says, that man is corrupted by a natural viciousness, but one which did not flow from nature. That it flowed from nature we deny, to signify that it is rather an adventitious quality which befell man than a substantial property implanted from the beginning. By judgment, or rather counsel, of God he understands that by which God permitted and preordained both Adam's fall and the propagation of the fall—which we demonstrated more fully in cap. XIII of this Manuscript, and which is nowhere refuted by the learned man.

Latin

PLAC. Cum Calvinus opponit naturam judicio Dei in hoc negotio, non id facit, ut neget naturali propagatione ab Adamo in posteros manasse corruptionem, nec per judicium Dei intelligit judiciariam imputationem peccati actualis Adami, aut poenae inflictionem. Dicimus, inquit, naturali hominem vitiositate corruptum, sed quae a natura non fluxerit. A natura fluxisse negamus, ut significemus adventitiam magis esse qualitatem, quae homini acciderit, quam substantialem proprietatem quae ab initio indita fuerit. Per judicium, aut potius consilium, Dei intelligit illud, quo Deus permisit & praeordinavit ut lapsum Adami, sic lapsus propagationem; id quod a nobis cap. XIII. huius Manuscripti fusius demonstratum est, nec uspiam refutatur a viro docto.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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