On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §352 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: just judgment conceded; Scripture not common opinion

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, the learned man so concedes that God's just judgment intervenes here that nevertheless by his explanation of just judgment he seems to take care not to approach the common opinion. Ne thing I care for—that I say nothing not consentaneous to God's word and glory. I inquire not what other men think, but what they ought to think. Even if the whole world with one mouth cried that the sole cause why we are born corrupt is God's will, my conscience would nonetheless shrink from that as much as possible. The norm of my faith is sacred Scripture, not the opinions of men.

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GAR. Deinde ita concedit vir doctus hic intervenire justum Dei judicium, ut sua tamen justi judicii explicatione id curare videatur, ne ad communem sententiam accedat. PLAC. Id unum curo, ne quid dicam quod Dei verbo & gloriae non sit consentaneum. Non quid alii homines sentiant, sed quid sentire debeant, inquiro. Etiamsi universus mundus uno ore clamaret, cur nascamur corrupti, unicam causam esse Dei voluntatem, hoc tamen nihilominus conscientia mea refugeret, ut quod maxime. Norma fidei meae est sacra Scriptura, non opiniones hominum.

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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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