On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §176 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 2: A contradiction Garissoles made by adding two words

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Garissoles: (2) How can these be reconciled? "Adam's sin is imputed to us not as it stuck in him," and "Adam's sin is imputed to us as it was lasting viciousness in him"—for what difference is there here between "sticking in Adam" and "being lasting in Adam"? I do not see. Placeus: The proposition "Adam's sin is imputed to us not as it stuck in him" is mine; the opposite, "Adam's sin is imputed to us as it was lasting viciousness in him," is not. The words "in him," which create the contradiction, he did not find in my writings; the learned man added them here from his own stock. Nor do they appear in the exposition of my view that he himself had set out earlier in §x. So he made and invented that contradiction and falsely pinned it on me.

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GAR. 2. Quomodo ista componi possunt inter se? Peccatum Adae imputatur nobis, non qua haesit in ipso, & peccatum Adae imputatur nobis qua fuit vitiositas permanens in ipso: nam haerere in Adamo, & esse permanens in Adamo, quid hic differant, ego quidem non video. PLAC. Propositio, Peccatum Adae imputatur nobis, non qua haesit in ipso, mea quidem est; sed illi opposita, Peccatum Adae imputatur nobis qua fuit vitiositas permanens in ipso, mea non est. Voces enim in ipso, quae contradictionem efficiunt, non invenit in meis scriptis, sed de suo Vir doctus addidit hoc loco: neque vero illae comparent in sententiae meae expositione quam ipse praemiserat § x. Contradictionem igitur istam ipse fecit ac finxit, mihique falso tribuit.

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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)

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