On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §455 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: Gospel promise — seed of woman; common remedy is not imputation

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You add that the same is demonstrated from the promise of the Gospel inserted there in verse 15 concerning the seed of the woman, Christ namely the avenger of the human race, who will crush the serpent's head. Just as from a common penalty it is inferred that the sin was common, so from a common Remedy for blotting out that sin it follows that that sin was common to all. But I confess a first common sin, yet seated not in the imputation of Adam's actual sin, but in corruption implanted in all; and made common not by divine imputation, but by carnal generation.

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Addis, idem demonstrari ex promissione Evangelii illic inserta vers. 15. de semine mulieris, Christo scilicet vindice generis humani, contrituro caput serpentis. Quemadmodum ex poena communi infertur peccatum fuisse commune, sic ex Remedio communi ad delendum illud peccatum, sequitur illud peccatum fuisse omnibus commune. At primum commune fateor peccatum, sed situm, non in imputatione peccati actualis Adami, sed in corruptione omnibus insita; & commune factum, non imputatione divina, sed generatione carnali.

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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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