On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §572 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: I hold Calvin/Augustine; reject your opinion for that absurd consequent

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arned man seems to dispute for me, against himself. For I agree with Calvin and Augustine, and that, I think, I have sufficiently testified in Disputation xi. book 1. for the Divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ; and now also I testify, who for that reason reject your opinion in this place, because from it follows the greatest absurdity, namely that those words of Christ can suit any other man. If this consequent seems absurd to you, as it certainly is, and indeed as absurd as can be, why does the antecedent from which it is drawn not seem equally absurd to you?

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PLAC. Pro me, contra se, disputare Vir doctus videtur. Idem enim cum Calvino & Augustino sentio, idque Disp. xi. lib. 1. pro Divina Domini nostri Iesu Christi natura, satis, opinor, testatum feci; Nuncque etiam testor, qui ideo vestram opinionem reiicio hoc loco, quia ex ea sequitur maximum absurdum, nempe verba illa Christi cuilibet alii homini convenire posse. Si videtur vobis absurdum hoc consequens, ut est certe, & quidem tam absurdum quam quod maxime, cur non videtur vobis pariter absurdum antecedens unde ducitur?

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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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