On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §463

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: Ps 32:1–2 — no lynx-eye sees immediate Adam-imputation there

Your second Argument you carve out from Ps. 32:1–2. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed iniquity—by a method I may admire more than followat eye of the mind, however lynx-keen, could see in those words the immediate imputation of Adam's actual sin to the whole posterity? You nevertheless try with many words to make me see it with you in them, but I cannot. Would that you had rewoven the force of your argument in applied syllogistic form, and not buried it under a great abundance of words; from which I cannot dig it out.

Latin

Secundum tuum Argumentum exsculpis ex Ps. 32. 1. 2. Beatus cui dimittitur praevaricatio, cui tegitur peccatum: Beatus homo cui non imputavit Dominus iniquitatem, ea arte, quam mihi mirari magis licet, quam assequi. Quis enim mentis oculus, ut ut lynceus, videre possit in illis verbis immediatam peccati actualis Adami toti posteritati imputationem? Tu tamen multis verbis efficere conaris, ut eam tecum in illis videam, sed non possum. Utinam tui argumenti vim adhibita forma syllogistica retexuisses, nec magna verborum copia obruisses; ex quibus eam eruere non possum.

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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.

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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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