On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §354 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: Scripture never ascribes corruption to judgment

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ure never ascribes corruption, or the propagation of corruption, to God's judgment. And so it is not a matter of Scripture's locution, but of the Theologians', to be taken insofar as the analogy of faith and the nature of the thing can bear, toward the better rather than the worse part. But if by the name of just judgment they understood nothing other than that work of God by which he inflicts some punishment from the reason of vindicative justice, they truly understood the judgment of God against men. But every judgment of God against men because they are sinners presupposes that they are sinners; it does not make them so. Here, however, the question is of a judgment of God that antecedes the sin of men who, without it, would not be sinners.

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PLAC. Scriptura nunquam corruptionem, aut corruptionis propagationem judicio Dei ascribit. itaque non agitur de locutione Scripturae, sed Theologorum, accipienda, pro eo ac pati potest analogia fidei & rei natura, in meliorem potius quam in detriorem partem. Quod si justi judicii nomine nihil aliud intellexerunt, quam opus illud Dei, quo poenam aliquam ex ratione justitiae vindicatricis irrogat, revera intellexerunt judicium Dei contra homines. Sed omne Dei judicium contra homines quia sunt peccatores, supponit eos esse peccatores, non facit. Hic autem agitur de judicio Dei, quod antecedit peccatum hominum, qui absque eo forent, peccatores non essent.

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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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