Chapter 6: Augustine/Martyr; — divine act not answered
onse 1. That all men were one man in Adam is not a recent fiction, but the old doctrine of the Catholics, and namely of Augustine disputing against the Pelagians, which he often repeats in his works. Let one place from Epistle 106 to Boniface suffice for now: Whoever from that one were to be many in themselves were one man in him. If you ask Augustine whence he has it, he will answer that he has it from the Apostle, where he testifies that all sinned in Adam. They sinned in Adam: therefore they were one in Adam. Which Martyr also, one of the weightiest theologians whose authority the learned man urges in this matter, clearly signified when he wrote that Adam's sinning was the same as if all had been present and had sinned with Adam. Wers something other than I asked. For I did not ask whence he had it that all men were one man in Adam, but whence he had it that God had considered all men as one person in Adam, so that He immediately imputed to them that first actual sin of Adam. The debate was about that consideration, about that inner act of the divine mind—on which, however, there is deep silence in this reply.
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GAR. Respons. 1. omnes homines fuisse unum hominem in Adamo, non commentum recens est, sed vetus Catholicorum, ac nominatim Augustini adversus Pelagianos disputantis doctrina, quam saepius in operibus suis repetit. Sufficiat nunc unus ille locus ex Epist. 106. ad Bonifac. Quicunque ex illo uno multi in seipsis futuri erant, in illo unus homo erant. Si ab Augustino quaeras, unde id habeat, respondebit ex Apostolo se habere, ubi testatur omnes in Adamo peccasse. In Adamo peccarunt: itaque unum fuerunt in Adamo. Quod & Martyr, unus ex gravissimis Theologis, quorum auctoritatem obtendit in hoc negotio vir doctus, evidenter significavit ubi scripsit, Adamo peccante idem fuisse, ac si omnes praesentes fuissent, & cum Adamo peccavissent. PLAC. Aliud quaesivi, aliud respondet. Non enim quaesivi, unde haberet, omnes homines fuisse unum hominem in Adamo; sed unde haberet, Deum considerasse omnes homines tanquam unum hominem in Adamo, ita ut illis primum illud peccatum actuale Adami imputaverit immediate? De illa consideratione, de illo interno mentis divinae actu agebatur: de quo tamen altum in hac responsione silentium.