On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §652 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: else we would be born more sinners than Adam (double habitual)

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Otherwise we would be born from Adam more sinners than Adam was. For to him was imputed only his own actual and habitual sin; to us both would be imputed as to Adam, and besides there would be imputed a habitual sin of the same kind actually implanted and inherent in us—for, like it or not, innate corruption is sin, and unless forgiven is to be imputed unto death.

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Alioqui magis peccatores ex Adamo nasceremur quam fuit Adam. Nam ei non est imputatum nisi ipsius peccatum actuale & habituale; nobis idem utrumque, quemadmodum Adamo, imputaretur, & praeterea imputaretur idem specie peccatum habituale nobis actu insitum ac inhaerens: nam, velis nolis, corruptio innata peccatum est, nisi condonetur, imputandum ad mortem.

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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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