On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §363 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: generation-act sins — little to born

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lly, what is added about the act of generation, in which men sin and offend God and are deservedly deserted by God, seems to do little for the present matter: seeing that here it is not a question of God's just judgment toward begetters, but toward the begotten; or if that just judgment be said to regard sons who are deservedly born corrupt because parents in the act of generation sinned and offended God—who does not see that from there emerges for us the conclusion to which the learned man is so hostile, that the penalties of the father's sin descend upon the sons?

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GAR. Denique de actu generationis quod additur, in quo homines peccant, & Deum offendunt, & merito a Deo deseruntur, ad rem praesentem parum facere videtur: quandoquidem hic non de justo judicio Dei erga generantes, sed erga genitos agitur: aut si justum illud judicium respicere dicatur filios, qui corrupti merito nascantur, quia genitores in actu generationis peccarunt & Deum offenderunt: quis non videt inde nobis emergere conclusionem, cui tam infestus est Vir doctus, peccati paterni poenas in filios descendere?

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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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