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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §689

Man. Post. Cap. X: GAR — proper penalty needs a law; only Adam’s death-ban fits Adam-to-Moses

e a penalty properly so called is the vindication of sin set from the institution of a law by a lawful judge: it must indeed be that all the penalties of sin which have thus far lain upon all men sprung from Adam, and will lie to the end of the ages, have been inflicted by God—and are still to be inflicted—according to the denunciation of some law.

But death, which all men have already entered from the beginning of the world, is a penalty of sin by its own nature and condition.

Therefore it is fitting that it was inflicted on all from the beginning, according to the declaration of some law constituted beforehand.

But this will be found to be no other than that which was set for Adam, and demanded obedience from him under an express threat of death; since from Adam to Moses no other universal law is read which threatens and denounces penalties to transgressors.

Latin

GAR. Cum poena proprie dicta sit vindicatio peccati ex instituto legis a legitimo iudice posita: oportet sane poenas omnes peccati, quae in omnes homines ab Adamo prognatos hactenus incubuerunt, & ad finem usque saeculorum incubiturae sunt, secundum alicuius legis denunciationem esse a Deo inflictas, & porro infligendas. Est autem mors quam omnes iam ab initio mundi homines inierunt, poena peccati ex propria sua natura & conditione. Itaque ab initio omnibus inflictam fuisse consentaneum est, iuxta declarationem alicuius legis antea constitutae. At haec non alia invenietur, quam quae Adamo posita est, & obedientiam ab eo sub diserta mortis comminatione postulavit; cum ab Adamo usque ad Mosen nulla legatur alia lex universalis, quae poenas transgressoribus minetur ac denunciet.

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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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