On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §343 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: original-stain syllogism — singular judgment

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rge this reason, &c. The evil which already from the time of Adam's first transgression is so derived into all his posterity that they do not begin to be before they are affected by that evil, is from the singular judgment of God, or from the will and counsel of God as Supreme Judge, for the punishment of that sin which had preceded in Adam. But original stain is an evil which from the time of Adam's transgression is so derived into all his posterity that they do not begin to be before they are affected by that evil. Therefore Original-stain syllogism — singular judgment

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GAR. Nos hanc rationem urgemus &c. Malum, quod jam a tempore primae transgressionis Adae in omnes ipsius posteros ita derivatur, ut non prius incipiant esse, quam illo malo affici, est ex singulari judicio Dei, sive ex voluntate & consilio Dei tanquam Supremi judicis in poenam peccati illius quod in Adamo praecesserat. Atqui labes Originalis est malum, quod a tempore transgressionis Adae in omnes eius posteros ita derivatur, ut non prius esse incipiant, quam illo malo affici. Labes igitur originalis inest in omnibus Adae posteris ex ratione singularis judicii Dei, in poenam primae illius transgressionis Adae; unde per se consequitur illius imputatio.

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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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