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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §407

Man. Post. Cap. VII: GAR liturgy/Socinus; PLAC virtue≠will tip

if someone from Socinus's school should come, and borrowing arms from the learned man should with like engines of conclusions fight against what the French Lord's Supper liturgy has—that the virtue of Christ's death is imputed to us unto righteousness, no less than if we ourselves had borne it? If that act of Christ's will by which he offered himself unto death is as much yours as if by your own act of will you had offered yourself, why then was not Christ's soul, body, mother also yours? Why not be said to have two wills—one before you were, another after you had been? &c. At liturgy say Christ's will was the will of us all? Or that that act of Christ's will by which he offered himself unto death was an act of us all? Not at all: it said only that the virtue of Christ's death is imputed to us unto righteousness. But the virtue of Christ's death is one thing, Christ's will another. So I see nothing in the liturgy's words from which such consequences can be drawn. Why then is the virtue of Christ's death imputed to us? Is it not because we were bound to pay death, and he, as our surety, paid it in our place? So it is ours by God's and Christ's gift, and ours by acceptance through faith. Was Adam likewise our surety so as to sin in our place? Or did his sin become ours by gift of God and of Adam and by our acceptance?

Latin

GAR. Quid si accedat aliquis de Socini schola, & arma mutuatus a viro docto similibus conclusionum tormentis agat adversus id quod habet Gallica S. Coenae liturgia, virtutem mortis Christi ad justitiam nobis imputari, non minus quam si eam nos ipsi pertulissemus? Si actus ille voluntatis Christi, quo se in mortem obtulit, tam tuus est, quam si tu actu proprio voluntatis tuae teipsum obtulisses, quiani etiam tua fuerit anima, corpus, mater Christi? Quidni duas voluntates habere dicaris, unam antequam esses, alteram postquam fuisti? &c. PLAC. Dixitne liturgia illa, voluntatem Christi fuisse voluntatem omnium nostrum? Aut actum illum voluntatis Christi, quo se in mortem obtulit, fuisse actum omnium nostrum? Minime: dixit tantum, virtutem mortis Christi ad justitiam nobis imputari. Aliud autem est virtus mortis Christi, aliud voluntas Christi. Nihil igitur video in verbis liturgiae unde tales consequentiae deduci possint. Cur autem virtus mortis Christi nobis imputatur? Annon quia mortem luere tenebamur, ille, ut vas noster, eam loco nostro luit? Itaque nostra est Dei & Christi donatione, nostraque per fidem acceptione. Num similiter Adamus vas noster fuit, ut loco nostro peccaret? Aut eius peccatum factum est dono Dei, & Adami, & nostra acceptione, nostrum?

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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.

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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