On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §287 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: cum corruptione

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n which it bore is imputed to us, was set out above at pages 162–163. What he gathers from that, that that action is ours also through that imputation, I do not acknowledge. For the corruption is ours because it was propagated into us. But that action becomes ours not by imputation, but, as Lavater said, by the vice of origin: because of course the vice of origin or corruption is the communication of that disobedience, and a habitual consent to it; and so it is not ours because it is imputed to us; but on the contrary it is imputed to us because it is ours.

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GAR. Huic ergo primae inobedientiae, non quidem praecise sumptae, sed una cum corruptione quam effecit in Adamo nobis imputatur, sicut supra vir doctus agnoscebat, erit sane etiam per eam imputationem nostra. Quidni ergo & Adami persona nobis imputetur, & dicatur etiam fuisse persona nostra? Aut hoc vir doctus concedat, aut suam argumentandi rationem condemnet & eliminet: & fateatur quod res est, nunquam auditum alienas personas imputari, sed actionum imputationem rem esse omnium ore atque sermone tritam, &c. PLAC. Quo sensu dixerim, & quam is minime causae quam ago obsit, actionem illam primam inobedientiae cum corruptione quam peperit nobis imputari, supra expositum est pag. 162. 163. Quod inde colligit, illam actionem etiam per eam imputationem nostram esse; non agnosco. Nam corruptio nostra est, quia in nos propagata est. Actio autem illa nostra fit non imputatione, sed, ut dicebat Lavaterus, vitio originis: quia nempe vitium originis seu corruptio est inobedientiae illius communicatio, & habitualis in eam consension: itaque non est nostra, quia nobis imputatur; sed contra nobis imputatur, quia nostra est.

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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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