On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §269 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: open — Examen Chapter 4; immediate vs mediate frame

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CAPUT VI. Examination of Cap. IV. Again in Cap. IV of your treatise you set your hand to constituting, polishing, and illustrating the state of the question; and on that matter you spend the whole of Cap. IV. I am sorry that we are detained so long by you in the vestibule, hungry and eager for your reasons, to the perceiving of which Cap. I of your treatise had invited us. Yet here it becomes me to linger with you a little and converse. It is asked, you say, how that actual sin, which was of a person, suffices for the condemnation of all. But first that point must be presupposed by a distinction: for on it turns the very hinge of this controversy. If you mean that that one actual sin by itself immediately suffices for the condemnation of all men, you presuppose what is in question, and what I deny. But if you mean it suffices for that condemnation by means of the corruption which it produced, propagated into all men, I assent to you.

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CAPUT VI. Examen Cap. IV. Rursus Cap. IV. tui tractatus manum admoves statui quaestionis constituendo, expoliendo, illustrando; inque ea re totum Cap. IV. consumis. Doleo nos tamdiu detineri a te in vestibulo famelicos & appetentes tuarum rationum, ad quas percipiendas nos tui tractatus Cap. primo invitaveras. Hic tamen decet me tecum paulisper commorari, & colloqui. Quaeritur, inquis, quomodo peccatum illud actuale, quod fuit personae, sufficiat ad condemnationem omnium. Atqui prius illud oportet distinctione praesupponendum: in eo enim ipso vertitur cardo hujus controversiae: nam si hoc vis, peccatum illud actuale per se ipsum unum immediate sufficere ad condemnationem omnium hominum, id praesupponis quod versatur in quaestione, quodque ego pernego. Sin vis sufficere ad eam condemnationem mediante corruptione, quam produxit, propagata in omnes homines, tibi assentior.

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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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