On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §688 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10 — we are punished for Adam’s sin via propagated corruption, not immediately

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In Adam’s posterity God saw all the malice of Adam’s disobedience, hereditary corruption—that is, unbelief, habitual enmity against God, opposition to the law of nature, and the like—and likewise sentenced like evils to like penalties.

For the law of nature demands that it go equally ill with equal evils.

We are therefore punished on account of Adam’s sin, but through the mediation of propagated corruption; those penalties are not immediate.

Latin

Vidit in posteris Adami Deus malitiam omnem inobedientiae Adami, corruptionem haereditariam, hoc est, incredulitatem, inimicitiam habitualem adversus Deum, legi naturae repugnantiam &c., similiter malis similibus poenis addixit. Flagitat enim naturae lex, ut pariter malis, pariter male sit. Punimur ergo propter peccatum Adami, sed mediante corruptione propagata, non immediate sunt illae poenae.

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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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