On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §337 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: Why generation took the place of the true last end

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, when the learned man proposes a last end which has taken the place of the true end, falsely apparent—namely a fallacious species of happiness to be found in creatures—how does he at once leap to generation, that is, from a general end to a singular one?ledges that another falsely apparent end has succeeded into the place of the true last end is not therefore at once compelled to conclude that that end must be generation. Why rather than science, or pleasure, or external goods, &c., unless a reason appear from elsewhere why generation rather than any other whatever should be said to have succeeded into the place of the true last end?

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GAR. Deinde cum finem ultimum vir doctus proponat, qui in veri finis locum successerit, falso apparentem, nempe fallacem felicitatis speciem in creaturis reperiendam, quomodo statim desilit ad generationem, hoc est, a generali fine ad singularem? Non enim qui agnoscit successisse, in locum veri finis ultimi finem alium falso apparentem, ideo statim concludere cogitur, eum finem esse debere generationem. Cur enim potius quam scientiam, vel voluptatem, vel bona externa, &c. nisi aliunde pateat ratio, quare potius successisse dicatur in locum veri finis ultimi generatio, quam aliud quodlibet?

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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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