On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §582 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: when corrupted in Adam? same reductio as before

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The Pelagian will now rise, and relying on this argumentation will ask, When were we corrupted in Adam by his sin? When he himself sinned, and by sinning corrupted himself, or at another time? Surely when he himself sinned, and by sinning corrupted himself. Many, nay all, have been warned by the sin for us, but also by the vice of that fall. Hear now. Those who were so corrupted that they were made guilty of eternal death, those were truly and properly corrupted. Those who were truly and properly corrupted, those then when they were corrupted truly and properly were. Therefore has the infant who is now born truly been, when Adam was sinning, and by sinning corrupting himself? So those who had made snares for others put themselves into them, and into the pit which they had prepared for others they themselves fall.

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Insurget iam Pelagianus, & hac argumentatione fretus quaeret, Quando corrupti sumus in Adamo peccato eius? An cum ipse peccavit, & peccando se corrupit, an alio tempore? Certe cum ipse peccavit, & peccando se corrupit: Etenim non sibi soli peccavit, aut peccato suo nocuit, sed unius illius lapsu multi, imo omnes mortui sunt. Audi iam. Qui ita corrupti fuerunt, ut mortis aeternae rei facti sint, illi vere & proprie corrupti fuerunt. Qui vere & proprie corrupti fuerunt, illi tunc cum corrupti sunt, vere & proprie fuerunt. Ergone infans qui nunc nascitur, vere fuit, cum Adamus peccaret, & peccando seipsum corrumperet? Ita qui laqueos aliis confecerant, in eos se induunt, & quam foveam aliis paraverant in eam ipsimet incidunt.

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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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