On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §678 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: imputation not obscure; faithful knew both it and innate corruption

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s not true that the imputation of that actual sin of Adam was obscure both before and after the law was given, and that innate corruption propagated from Adam was known.

For if you speak of the Gentiles outside the Church and living without God’s covenant, both were equally unknown; if of the faithful and long partners of the covenant of grace, both were equally known.

Nor is Paul to be thought, when he taught that all sinned in Adam, to have forged some new dogma that under the Old Testament was altogether unheard of and unknown, etc.

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GAR. Non est verum peccati illius actualis Adae imputationem, & ante & post legem datam, obscuram; corruptionem autem innatam & ex Adamo propagatam, cognitam fuisse. Nam si de Gentibus loquaris extra Ecclesiam, & Dei foedere agentibus, aeque fuit ignotum utrumque: Si de fidelibus, & foederis gratiae diuturnis consortibus, aeque notum utrumque: Neque enim putandum est Paulum, cum omnes docuit in Adamo peccasse, novum aliquod dogma procudisse, quod sub veteri Testamento fuerit omnino inauditum & incognitum, &c.

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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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