On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §259 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 4: Did the threat of death cover every evil sin brought

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ring a threefold reason. First: man incurs by his rebellion no other evils and harms than those God had threatened by the sanction of His law. For if God meant to scare him from disobedience and law-breaking, why would He not have set before his eyes the precipices into which violation of the divine law would cast him? Yet by refusing obedience man drew on himself not only bodily death and outward calamities, but also the loss of spiritual gifts, the perversion of every faculty, and guilt of eternal damnation. Therefore God had threatened all of that by His declaration of death.

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GAR. Rationem triplicem producimus. Primum enim. Non alia mala & damna rebellione sua homo incurrit, quam quae interminatus fuerat ei Deus sua legis sanctione; quem enim ab inobedientia & praevaricatione legis absterrere voluit, quidni praecipitia ei posuisset ob oculos, in quae erat suae legis divinae violatione deturbandus? Atqui homo, sua obsequii denegatione, non mortem modo corporalem, & calamitates externas sibi accersivit, verum & omissionem spiritualium donorum, & facultatum omnium perversionem, & damnationis aeternae reatum incurrit. Omnia ergo Deus sua illa mortis declaratione comminatus fuerat.

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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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