On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §692 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: I grant posterity shares Adam’s sin and penalties via generation

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Finally, to pass over other faults that can be caught in this argument of the learned man, it is a wandering from the state of the question.

For I do not deny that the penalties of Adam’s sin reach his posterity, because of course Adam’s sin reaches them.

For Adam communicated his sin to us through carnal generation, and through sin, the penalties.

Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death.

I also confess that original sin propagated into us is worthy of the punishment of death, since it is truly sin opposing the law of nature—nay, every divine law.

These things ought not to be disputed between us.

Latin

Denique ut taceam alia vitia, quae in hoc Viri docti argumento deprehendi possunt, aberratio est a statu quaestionis. Non enim nego poenas peccati Adami pertinere ad eius posteros, quia nempe ad eos peccatum Adami pertinet. Communicavit enim nobiscum Adamus per generationem carnalem peccatum suum, & per peccatum, poenas. Per unum hominem peccatum ingressum est in mundum, & per peccatum mors. Fateor etiam propagatum in nos peccatum originale dignum esse mortis supplicio, cum sit vere peccatum repugnans legi naturae, immo omni legi divinae. Haec inter nos controversa esse non debent.

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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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