On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §180 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 2 duplex: Ut rem verbo absolvam — Tu affirmas; Ego Nego

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To put it in a word: the question is whether Adam's first actual sin, taken precisely, is imputed to us his posterity by God the Just Judge immediately and in the order of nature before we are inherently corrupt. You, venerable brother, say yes. I say no. Which of us is right, the disputation that follows will, I hope in the Lord, make plain.

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Ut igitur rem verbo absolvam, quaeritur, utrum primum peccatum actuale Adami precise sumptum nobis ejus posteris imputetur a Deo Justo Judice proxime, immediate ac ordine naturae prius quam inhaerenter corrupti simus? Tu venerande frater affirmas: Ego Nego. Uter rectius, sequens disputatio, uti spero in Domino, planum faciet.

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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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