On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §379 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7: No sentence of God stripped Adam of justice

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indeed confess: for that sentence in Gen. 3 stands. But what follows from it? Can the learned man show in Scripture any judicial sentence of God by which Adam was stripped of justice? And yet I do not assent to the learned man that the penalties inflicted on Eve and Adam by the sentence given in Gen. 3:16–17 were those which the law chiefly threatened by the words dying you shall die. For that fights with Christ's satisfaction, and with the full and perfect justification of the faithful on account of it.

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PLAC. Id equidem fateor: Extat enim illa sententia Gen. 3. Sed quid inde sequitur? Potestne ostendere vir doctus in Scriptura judiciariam aliquam Dei sententiam, qua fuerit Adamus spoliatus justitia? Et tamen non assentior viro docto poenas sententia lata Gen. 3. 16. 17. Evae & Adamo irrogatas, eas fuisse, quas lex praecipue comminabatur verbis morte morieris. Id enim pugnat cum Christi satisfactione, & fidelium propter eam justificatione plena & perfecta.

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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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