On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §261 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 4: integritas; condition vs promised

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dam, if he had persevered in integrity, was to be given continuance and increase of bodily and spiritual goods. Therefore, falling from that integrity, it was fitting he should lie under bodily and spiritual evils: why then should God not have meant those by the name of death?

But perseverance in integrity and continuance of integrity are the same thing. And how do original integrity and original righteousness differ? So he was to be given continuance—not of original righteousness (for that continuance was required as the condition), but of all other goods. Integrity is opposed immediately to corruption: to fall from integrity is to be corrupted; to lose integrity is to gain corruption. So the learned man confounds the condition of the promise with the thing promised; and his antecedent is true only of physical goods, or goods other than integrity or righteousness itself.

Latin

GAR. 2. Adamus in integritate perseverans, bonorum & corporalium, & spiritualium continuatione & augmento donandus erat: Ergo & ab ea integritate deficiens, ut malis subiaceret, & corporalibus, & spiritualibus, consentaneum erat: quidni ergo Deus ea significata voluerit mortis nomine? PLAC. Atqui perseverantia in integritate & continuatio integritatis idem sunt. Integritas autem originalis & justitia originalis quid differunt? Erat igitur donandus continuatione, non justitiae originalis (haec enim continuatio exigebatur ut conditio) sed aliorum omnium bonorum. Porro integritas opponitur corruptioni immediate: deficere ab integritate est corrumpi, amittere integritatem est acquirere corruptionem. Confundit ergo Vir doctus conditionem promissionis cum re promissa: nec verum est argumenti ejus antecedens, nisi de bonis intelligatur physicis, seu ab ipsa integritate seu justitia diversis.

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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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