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Chapter 9: fights pre-existence imputation
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Which he cannot answer me, because, as I have already observed, I oppose the imputation which is believed to have long been, before we began to be. And by that imputation it was brought about that we truly and properly became sinners and guilty.
Latin Id quod mihi respondere non potest, quoniam, ut iam observavi, imputationem oppugno quae diu fuisse creditur, antequam esse inciperemus, & qua factum sit ut vere & proprie peccatores & rei fieremus.
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About this text Placeus wrote in the mid-seventeenth century as Reformed theology professor at the Academy of Saumur. This is not a patristic work. The 1661 Saumur Latin is public domain.
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
Date c. 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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