On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §537 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: 'entered the world' joins hereditary vice, not bare actual

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Which suggests other arguments to me, but, for the sake of avoiding too much prolixity in this place, to be conferred to another place. Add that I have already proved that actual sin did not enter into the world, that is, into humans: whence it follows that this attribute entered into the world joins sin to itself, not insofar as it signifies actual sin, but insofar as it signifies the vice arisen from it in my opinion immediately, but in yours by the mediation of God's imputation. So I think I have confirmed my argument enough.

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Id quod mihi alia suggerit argumenta, sed, vitandae hoc loco nimiae prolixitatis causa, conferenda in alium locum. Adde quod iam probavi peccatum actuale non introiisse in mundum, hoc est, in homines: unde sequitur hoc attributum in mundum introiit sibi iungere peccatum, non qua significat peccatum actuale, sed qua significat vitium ex eo mea sententia immediate, tua vero mediante Dei imputatione ortum. Sic opinor meum argumentum firmavi satis.

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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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