On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §118 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: Theologorum auxilium — Whitaker, Chamier, Sixtus, Bellarmine

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With that argument laid out, Garissoles calls in the theologians' help and names Whitaker, Chamier, Sixtus of Siena, and Bellarmine. That he praises our writers does not surprise me: that is how this debate usually goes when novelty is the charge to be shaken off. But why the Papists? Why Bellarmine? Did he think their authority would move us? I do not think so. He meant to join Bellarmine's reasons to his own against us. He says Bellarmine comes forward on no contemptible grounds for confirming this opinion — book 5 of On the Loss of Grace and the State of Sin, chapter 18. Very well: let us answer those reasons too, and with the more spirit because, if I understand them, they cut plainly against the doctrine of original sin received in our churches.

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Hac ratione sic proposita Theologorum auxilium sibi adjungit, & Vitakerum, Chamierum, Sixtum Senensem, & Bellarminum nominat. Nostros cur laudet non miror: ita enim in hac causa usuvenit, novitatis suspicionem amoliendi causa: Sed cur Pontificios? cur Bellarminum? Nosne putavit eorum autoritate moveri posse? Non arbitror: Sed suis rationibus conjungere voluit ad nos oppugnandos Bellarmini rationes. Eum enim dicit non contemnendis ad firmandam hanc sententiam rationibus fultum procedere in medium lib. 5. de Amiss. Grat. & Stat. pecc. cap. 18. Age igitur hujus etiam solvamus rationes, eoque majore animo quod si quid intelligo, receptae in Ecclesiis nostris doctrinae de peccato originali non obscure adversantur.

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Josué de la Place (Placeus) on the imputation of Adam's first sin: chapters 1 to 12 and 14, and the later disputation up to its chapter on Romans 5:14, from the Latin. The rest is not yet translated.

Josué de la Place (c. 1596–1655), known in Latin as Placeus, was pastor at Nantes and from 1633 professor of theology at the Academy of Saumur, the school of Cameron and Amyraut.

On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin argues the distinctive Saumur thesis: Adam's sin reaches his posterity only mediately, through the inherited corruption — never by immediate reckoning of a sin they did not commit. Fellow Reformed theologians rejected the view, but the book remains its classic statement.

Part only: Chapters 1–12 and 14, and the disputation up to Romans 5:14

Datec. 1645–1655 AD (written after the 1645 Synod of Charenton, and read in draft by Drelincourt by 10 December 1653; printed posthumously at Saumur, 1661; Reformed / Amyraldian circle)

The English is made from the 1661 Saumur Latin of chapters 1 to 12 and 14 and part of the later disputation. No earlier English was copied.

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