On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §690 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: first falsity: not all Adam-line pains are legal vindications

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s the fact that this reason is a confutation of the learned man’s prior reply, it labors under a triple falsehood.

First, it is false that all the penalties of sin which have thus far lain upon all men sprung from Adam, and will lie to the end of the ages, were the vindication of sin set from the institution of a law by a lawful judge.

That is plain from this: that most such penalties are inflicted no less on the pious, for whom Christ has most fully satisfied justice and the law, than on the impious.

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PLAC. Praeterquam quod haec ratio est superioris responsionis Viri docti confutatio, laborat triplici falsitate. Primo falsum est poenas omnes peccati, quae in omnes homines ab Adamo prognatos hactenus incubuerunt, & ad finem usque saeculorum incubiturae sunt, fuisse vindicationem peccati ex instituto legis a legitimo iudice positam. Id patet ex eo quod pleraeque eiusmodi poenae non minus infliguntur piis, pro quibus Christus plenissime iustitiae & legi satisfecit, quam impiis.

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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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