On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §470 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: visiting fathers' iniquity — unfit to prove unlimited Adam-imputation

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The places in which God is said to visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons are not even commemorated here: for you saw that they are more suited to defend against my arguments than for proving the imputation of Adam's actual sin. For in truth no argument can be made from them which does not proceed equally of Adam's other sins as of the first, and of our other parents' sins as of Adam's: and that limitation to the fourth generation openly resists an unlimited imputation to all generations: and that other limitation in those who hate me presupposes hatred of God in those who are visited: whereas the imputation of the first actual sin presupposes no vice in infants, but, if you are believed, makes it. But of these places elsewhere.

Latin

Loca in quibus Deus visitare dicitur iniquitatem patrum in filios hic ne commemorata quidem: vidisti enim ea esse ad tuendam adversus mea argumenta, quam ad probandam imputationem peccati actualis Adami, magis accommodata. Revera enim inde nullum argumentum confici potest, quod non aeque de aliis Adami peccatis ac de primo, deque aliorum parentum nostrorum peccatis, ac de Adami procedat: & limitatio illa in quartam generationem repugnat aperte imputationi illimitatae in omnes generationes: & altera illa limitatio in iis qui me oderunt praesupponit odium Dei in iis qui visitantur: cum imputatio primi peccati actualis nullum in infantibus vitium praesupponat, sed, si tibi creditur, faciat. Verum de his locis alibi.

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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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