On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §34 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7 Denique: Modes of effects — Rivetus denies the parallel

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Finally, he says, the mode of the effects which reach us from those causes is compared. We are constituted righteous through Christ: sinners through Adam. How righteous through Christ? By the imputation of his righteousness. How sinners through Adam? By the imputation of his disobedience. Now I and the most distinguished Rivetus have denied that the modes are compared, and rightly: for to one asking, How are we righteous through Christ? if someone answer with the Apostle, By the donation of righteousness through grace, will he be able to answer one asking, How are we sinners through Adam? in like manner, By the donation of righteousness? And that through grace?

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Denique, inquit, comparatur modus effectorum, quae ab illis causis ad nos pertinent. Iusti constituimur per Christum: peccatores per Adamum. Quomodo iusti per Christum? imputatione iustitiae ipsius. Quomodo peccatores per Adamum? imputatione inobedientiae ipsius. Iam ego et Clariss. Rivetus negavimus comparari modos, et recte quidem: nam quaerenti, Quomodo iusti per Christum? Si quis autore Apostolo respondeat, donatione iustitiae per gratiam, poterit-ne quaerenti, Quomodo peccatores per Adamum? similiter respondere, donatione iustitiae? Et quidem per gratiam?

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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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