Chapter 10: Antecedent immediate imputation — no reasons can establish it
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Chapter X.That the antecedent or immediate imputation of Adam's first actual sin cannot be established by any reasons.Do you think, reader, that this imputation — since it is absent from Scripture — can be established by reasons?Still, let us hear whatever reasons are brought forward.For we are persuaded that right reason always agrees with Scripture.I grant that what God had bestowed on Adam was given not to him alone but also to his whole posterity; and therefore that we, spoiled of all those goods in his person, fell into this whole misery and curse.What reason for that imputation can be drawn from that?Were all the goods God had bestowed on Adam to be imputed to every one of his posterity?Or is the fitting spoliation of all those goods to be imputed to us?Would that this spoliation belonged to us only by imputation!
Latin
CAPUT X.
Imputationem primi Adae peccati actualis antecedentem seu immediatam nullis rationibus astrui posse.
Putasne, Lector, hanc imputationem, cum absit a Scriptura, rationibus posse astrui? Audiamus tamen, si quae afferuntur, rationes. Persuasum enim est nobis perpetuo cum Scriptura rectam consentire rationem. Agnosco, Quae Deus Adamo largitus erat, non ipsi soli, sed etiam toti posteritati ipsius fuisse data; ac proinde nos in ipsius persona omnibus illis bonis spoliatos in omnem hanc miseriam & maledictionem incidisse. Quid inde pro illa imputatione rationis elici potest? Erant-ne posteris omnibus imputanda, quae Deus Adamo largitus fuerat bona? Aut est-ne imputanda nobis illorum omnium bonorum Adamo conveniens spoliatio? Utinam haec spoliatio nobis nonnisi imputative conveniret!