Chapter 8: if dogma true, revealed in OT — but nowhere revealed
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Now I may argue thus.If the dogma of the imputation of Adam's first actual sin to all and each human is true and to be believed, it is surely revealed somewhere in the Old Testament.But it is revealed nowhere in the Old Testament.Therefore it is not true and to be believed.The minor is clear from this our dispute.I prove the major, because the law is fitted to detect and lay open sin: through the law is knowledge of sin.But it does not discharge this its office as it ought, if it does not lay open that sin which is common to all humans, which is the cause of all others, whence the condemnation of all humans hangs.But it does not lay it open according to your opinion, who will have a sin of that kind be Adam's first actual sin imputed to all humans, unless this imputation can be gathered from the law, or the Old Testament.
Latin
Nunc mihi licet ita argumentari. Si dogma de imputatione primi peccati actualis Adami omnibus & singulis hominibus verum est & credendum, utique revelatum est alicubi in veteri Testamento. Atqui nullibi revelatum est in veteri Testamento. Non igitur est verum & credendum. Minor patet ex hac nostra disputatione. Majorem probo, quia lex comparata est ad detegendum & patefaciendum peccatum: per legem est cognitio peccati. Non fungitur autem suo hoc munere, uti par est, si non patefacit illud peccatum quod est omnium hominum commune, quod est omnium aliorum causa, unde omnium hominum condemnatio pendet. Non patefacit autem secundum tuam sententiam, qui peccatum ejusmodi vis esse primum peccatum actuale Adami omnibus hominibus imputatum, nisi haec imputatio ex lege, seu vetere Testamento colligi possit.