On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §674 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: corruption plus double reatus is unexampled as ‘sin’

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But if you say that the sin which was in the world until the law embraces corruption together with guilt, I will ask which guilt you mean: that which follows corruption (for sin, when it is, pours guilt from itself), or that which is said to precede corruption, and in respect of which corruption is not sin but the penalty of sin?

That latter certainly cannot be excluded: Passage 674 - Corruption plus double guilts unexampled as ‘sin’

Latin

Quod si dicas, peccatum quod usque ad legem in mundo fuit, una cum reatu corruptionem complecti, quem intelligas reatum quaeram: illumne qui sequitur corruptionem (peccatum enim, cum sit, reatum a se fundit), an vero illum qui corruptionem antecedere dicitur, & cuius respectu corruptio non est peccatum, sed poena peccati? Ille certe excludi non potest: intelligetur igitur corruptio duplici stipata reatu, altero antecedente, altero subsequente, quomodo peccatum recipi aliquando, nullo exemplo probari potest.

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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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