On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §662 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: retorsion — swap in inherent original vice; that is the pre-law sin

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Therefore this proposition of yours rests on your prior argumentation, which you see riddled and finished by us in the preceding chapter with many shafts, so that by my right I may put this in its place: But original vice inherent in all men is that sin of which the Apostle spoke in the immediately preceding verse, as I proved above.

Therefore that sin which was in the world until the law is original vice inherent in all, which vice I not only confess but even contend is to be imputed to all, unless it is forgiven through Christ.

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Nititur igitur haec tua propositio superiori tua argumentatione, quam vides a nobis capite praecedente multis telis confossam ac confectam, ut iure meo possim eius loco hanc ponere, Atqui vitium originale omnibus hominibus inhaerens est illud peccatum de quo loquutus est Apostolus versu immediate praecedenti, ut supra probavi. Ergo peccatum illud quod fuit in mundo usque ad legem est vitium originale omnibus inhaerens, quod vitium omnibus, nisi condonetur per Christum, imputari non fateor modo, sed contendo etiam.

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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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