On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §687 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: The threat of Genesis 2:17 does not impute the eating to all

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What the learned man adds in the following §28—that the law according to which that judicial imputation is made is that primal law, In the day you eat you shall die—seems marvelous to me.

For by what argument has he carved out of those words that that eating ought to be imputed to all Adam’s posterity?

All men are indeed sharers in the penalties, but because they are sharers in the sin.

For once this was propagated, what reason is there why those penalties would not have been propagated?

Latin

Quod §. xxviii. sequente subiungit Vir doctus legem secundum quam illa imputatio iudiciaria sit, esse primigeniam illam legem, Quo die comederis, morte morieris, mihi mirum videtur. Quo enim argumento ex verbis illis exsculpsit, manducationem illam omnibus Adami posteris imputari debere? Participes quidem sunt poenarum omnes homines, sed quia sunt participes peccati. Hoc enim propagato, quid est cur illae non propagatae fuissent?

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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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