On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §152 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 14: Nullam extare in manuscriptis — printed rationes enough; MS survey opens

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Chapter XIV. That no argument in the manuscript pamphlets can prove the immediate or antecedent imputation of Adam's sin. Of the printed arguments I have managed to read, enough has been said, I judge. I have seen many manuscripts, and in them I have noticed almost nothing that is not already in books issued by the printers—save that first piece to which Placeus answered in the manuscript Garissoles later called the later one, and on whose refutation Garissoles spent a great part of his book.

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CAPUT XIV. Nullam extare in manuscriptis libellis rationem quae peccati Adamici imputationem immediatam seu antecedentem probare possit. De Argumentis typis excusis, quae mihi legere contigit, dictum est, ut ego arbitror, satis. Manuscriptorum vidi complura: Sed in quibus nihil fere animadverti, quod non legatur in scriptis Typographorum opera publicatis; si primum illud excipias, cui Placeus manuscripto illo respondit, quod D. Garissolius posterius appellavit, et in quo refellendo magnam partem libri sui consumpsit.

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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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