On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §685

Man. Post. Cap. X: GAR — God needs no external law for occult judgment; Canaan / Abimelech cited

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GAR. God has no external laws constituted according to which he must necessarily act, especially in occult judgments.

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever he has pleased (Psalm 115:3).

But the imputation of Adam’s sin is a judicial act of God, as we said from the start, in which his hidden judgment and admirable counsel are to be acknowledged.

Therefore even without a law posited he could impute that sin.

So before the law handed down by Moses, Canaan had Ham the father’s sin imputed by God, and the household paid the penalties of the sin committed by Abimelech.

Who will produce an external law then existing, according to whose rule that imputation was made?

Latin

GAR. Deo non sunt leges externae constitutae, secundum quas necessario ipsi agendum sit, praesertim in iudiciis occultis. Deus noster in caelo, quodcumque libuerit, facit, Psalmo cxv. 3. Atqui imputatio peccati Adae est actio Dei iudiciaria, ut dicebamus ab initio, in qua occultum iudicium & admirabile consilium eius agnoscendum est. Ergo etiam sine lege posita, potuit illud peccatum imputare. Sic ante legem a Mose traditam, imputatum est Canaanis a Deo Chami patris peccatum, & peccati ab Abimelecho commissi poenas dedit familia. Quis legem externam proferat tunc existentem, secundum cuius regulam ea imputatio facta fuerit?

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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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