On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §571 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Christ-words for a creature? Calvin & Augustine forbid

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there can be some reason why someone should apply to an infant or to any man whatever those words by which, Calvin testifying, Christ exempts himself from the common crowd of men, and claims for himself alone the divine power, whose meaning has been known throughout all time. Do you think holy Augustine would have suffered this place to be accommodated to a creature, whether in jest or in earnest—he who, when he had diligently meditated those words, exclaims, Acknowledge the Creator, discern the creature?

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GAR. Et quaedam ratio esse potest, ut quis ad infantem vel hominem quemcumque applicet ea verba, quibus teste Calvino Christus eximit se a vulgo hominum, sibiique solius divinam virtutem vindicat, cuius sensus ab initio usque mundi in omnia saecula diffusus fuerit. Putasne passurum Sanctum Augustinum, ut hic locus vel ioco, vel serio ad creaturam accommodaretur, qui cum ea verba diligenter meditatus esset, exclamat, Agnoscite Creatorem, discernite creaturam?

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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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