On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §391 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7: The objection that God is not bound by that law

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ed, if someone should happen to think these things ought not so to be done by men, but that the norm of their judgments ought to be that law given to the Jews about sons not being punished for the father's crime, Deut. 24:16—still it would by no means follow from that that God also cannot depart from the same norm in his judgments; since he is bound by no laws, but his own will is to him the norm and law of what is to be done.

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GAR. Imo si forte sentiret aliquis, haec ita fieri non debere ab hominibus, sed iis judiciorum suorum normam esse debere legem illam Judaeis datam de filiis pro crimine patris non puniendis, Deut. 24. 16. tamen haudquaquam inde consequeretur, Deum etiam in suis judiciis ab eadem norma non posse discedere; cum ipse nullis legibus obstringatur, sed sua sit ipsi voluntas agendorum norma & lex.

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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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