On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §220 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 4: Cameron gospel summum; Amyraut physical goods

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es not see that the most excellent Cameron is describing there not the life promised to Adam under the condition of perfect obedience, but absolutely man's highest good as the Word of God—or the Gospel—promises it? What the covenant of grace promises differs sharply from what the covenant of nature was promising Adam.

Who also does not see that our most illustrious colleague Amyraut means, so to speak, physical goods—not the merely moral ones Whose continuance God required of Adam

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PLAC. Quis non videt a praestantissimo Camerone describi eo loco, non vitam quatenus promissa Adamo sub perfectae obedientiae conditione fuerat, sed absolute summum hominis bonum, quale Dei verbo seu Euangelio promittitur? Differt autem admodum id quod foedere gratiae promittitur, ab eo quod foedere naturae promittebatur Adamo. Quis etiam non videt, Clariss. Collegam D. Amyraldum bona intelligere, ut ita loquar, physica, non autem ea quae mere moralia erant, quorumque continuatio exigebatur ab Adamo?

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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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