On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §625 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: imputation when not yet separate persons; reckoned as one man in Adam

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That imputation was therefore made when we were not yet persons separate and distant from Adam—or, as the one I was dealing with puts it, when we were considered by God as one person in Adam. Now, I think, you yourself, reader, sufficiently see what force the argument has.

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Facta est igitur ista imputatio cum nondum essemus personae separatae & distantes ab Adamo: vel, ut loquitur is quicum mihi res erat, cum consideraremus a Deo tanquam unus homo in Adamo. Nunc, opinor, quam vim habeat argumentum, ipse per te, Lector, satis intelligis.

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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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