On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §426 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7: Quarto — king implants rebellion then imputes and strips virtues

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Fourth, suppose there is some King endowed with such power that he can, if he wishes, inject into his subjects a spirit of rebellion and disobedience. Do you think that if he is wise, if just, if good, he would be so disposed that to those who would otherwise be faithful in that city he would first impute the crime of rebels, then, to punish it, strip them of justice and fidelity and the other virtues, so that thereafter they could not but be themselves rebels and criminals?

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Quarto, fac esse aliquem Regem ea potentia praeditum, ut possit subditis suis, si velit, animum rebellionis & inobedientiae immittere, putasne eum si sapiens, si justus, si bonus sit, ita fore comparatum, ut iis qui alioqui in urbe illa fideles essent, primum imputet rebellium crimen, deinde ut illud puniat eos privet justitia & fidelitate, ac caeteris virtutibus, ut deinceps non possint non esse ipsi rebelles & scelesti?

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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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