On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §524 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: 'entered' fits hereditary properly, actual only remotely

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Next, if Adam's actual sin did not enter into the world except by reason of hereditary corruption, it must be confessed that this attribute of having entered into the world, or into humans, agrees of itself and properly and nearest with hereditary corruption, only remotely, and by reason of that corruption, with Adam's actual sin. If therefore that corruption is truly and properly sin, even after baptism, as ours hold against the Papists, is it not manifest that the sin which entered into the world is rather its description than that of Adam's actual sin?

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Deinde, si peccatum actuale Adami non intravit in mundum, nisi ratione corruptionis haereditariae, fatendum est hoc attributum intrasse in mundum, seu homines, convenire per se & proprie & proxime corruptioni haereditariae, remote tantum, & illius corruptionis ratione, peccato actuali Adami. Si igitur corruptio illa est vere & proprie peccatum, etiam post baptismum, ut nostri adversus Pontificios tuentur, nonne manifestum est, peccatum quod in mundum intravit, eius potius descriptionem esse quam peccati actualis Adami?

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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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