On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §456 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: else Devil one, God the rest; remedy needs faith-consent

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Otherwise the Devil by his temptation would have made a single human a sinner, God (thinking it I wholly shudder) by that imputation of his all the rest; of which imputation show if you can either the necessity or the justice. For the rest, however common the remedy may be, yet it is not applied, not imputed to any adult, except to one consenting and apprehending it by faith, nor is it ours except by the gift of Christ and of God. But that Adam's actual sin should be given to us by God—far be it that I believe.

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Alioqui Diabolus sua tentatione unicum hominem peccatorem effecisset, Deus (cogitans totus cohorresco) sua illa imputatione reliquos omnes; cujus imputationis demonstra si potes vel necessitatem, vel justitiam. Caeterum quantumvis commune sit remedium, tamen non applicatur, non imputatur ulli adulto, nisi consentienti ac per fidem illud apprehendenti, nec nostrum est nisi Christi & Dei dono. Donari autem a Deo nobis peccatum actuale Adami absit ut credam.

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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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