On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §450 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: sentence most personal; if immediate imputation, common words

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But do not think that was done by him rashly. If God had imputed that actual sin of Adam to humans not yet existing, and by his sentence had immediately adjudged them all to those penalties for that sin, with what wisdom would he have conceived a common sentence in common words, and such as could be applied to all and each human, or would he have injected some mention of Adam's posterity.

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Id autem noli putare factum esse ab eo temere. Si Deus actuale illud peccatum Adami imputavisset hominibus nondum existentibus, eosque omnes immediate ob illud peccatum sua sententia poenis illis adjudicasset, qua est sapientia communem sententiam verbis communibus, & quae omnibus & singulis hominibus applicari possent, concepisset, aut posterorum Adami aliquam mentionem injecisset.

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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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