On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §691 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: Not every penalty came by a law's threat

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Next, it is false that all those penalties were inflicted by God according to the denunciation of some law.

For what denunciation of a law ordered that Eve be struck with the multiplication of the pains of conception and birth, and Adam with this penalty—that in the sweat of his face he should eat bread, and that the earth should bring forth thorns and thistles for him, and the rest?

Third, it is false that no other universal law was set for the human race from Adam to Moses which threatens and denounces penalties to transgressors, besides that which demanded obedience from Adam under an express threat of death.

For—leaving aside the universal law given in Gen. 9 on homicide and on blood—blood—blood—was not the law of nature given to Adam himself and to the whole human race, which the Apostle presses in Romans 1 and 2?

Latin

Deinde falsum est omnes illas poenas secundum alicuius legis denunciationem esse a Deo inflictas. Quae enim legis denunciatio iubebat infligi Evae multiplicationem dolorum conceptus & partus, & Adamo hanc poenam, ut in sudore vultus sui vesceretur pane, & terra proferret illi spinas & tribulos &c.? Tertio falsum est nullam aliam legem universalem generi humano ab Adamo usque ad Mosen positam fuisse, quae poenas transgressoribus minetur ac denunciet, praeter illam quae obedientiam ab Adamo sub diserta mortis comminatione postulavit. Nam ut omittam legem universalem latam Gen. ix. de homicidio, & de sanguine, nonne ipsi Adamo & toti generi humano lata est lex naturae, quam Apostolus urget Rom. i. & 2.?

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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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