Pix. See Pyx.
Pizzez. See Artists.
Placaeus. See Place, Josue de la.
Place, Absalom's. See Absalom.
Place, Fruitful. See Carmel.
Place, Conyers, an English divine of some note, flourished in the first half of last century, very near the opening of that rera. We know nothing of his personal history. He has left several valuable publications, among which we note, besides his Sermons (Lond. 1702, 4to; 1721, 8vo; 1705, 4to), Adversaria (1709):— Re- marks,with Queries put t<> Mr. Bolde, concerning his wild Pamphlet, or clouterly Invective, against t/ir Christian Ministry and World, called Some Thoughts concerning Church Authority (1724, 8vo): — Space is Necessary Being, etc. (1728) : — Essay towards the Vindication <<j' the Visible Creation (1729, 8vo) -.—Reason an Insufficient Guide (1735) : — Remarks on a Treatise entitled A J 'lain Account, etc., of the Lord's Supper, in which all the texts in the New Testament which relate to it are pro- duced and explained, and the whole doctrine about it is drawn from them alone (1735). See Blakey, Hist, of the Philosophy of the Mind, iii, 31; Allibone, Did. ';/' Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. v. ; Hook, Pedes. Biog. s. v.
Place, Enoch, an American minister in the Free- will Baptist Church, was born in Rochester, N. H., July 13, 1786. He was converted in March, 1807, while en- gaged in teaching, and soon felt called of God to enter the work of the ministry. He preached his first sermon June 2, 1807, and was ordained Jan. 23, 1813. Forty- one years of his public life he passed in Strafford, X. H., laboring also much in adjoining towns. He had a thirst for knowledge, and from youth to manhood availed himself of the means within his reach to acquire an ed- ucation, though his denomination at that period was not in favor of a learned ministry. By personal effort he advanced until he became eminent among his own people and a leader in his town. His gifts and position eminently qualified him for usefulness both as a minis- ter and citizen. He was called to fill high positions in his denomination, such as moderator of General Con- ference, trustee of printing establishment, member of mission boards, etc. As a preacher, he was earnest and warm. At times he would have such a sense of the sinner's condition and obligation to God that he would speak as one having authority. Occasionally he would rise to such a height in feeling and eloquence as to be almost overwhelming and irresistible. His personal ap- pearance was commanding, his voice sonorous and rich. He was also eloquent and mighty in prayer. Mr. Place, with many other Free-will Baptists, early espoused the antislavery cause. Abundant in labors and rich in faith. Father Place, as he came to be called, died March 23, 1865.
Place (Placceus^), Josue de la, a celebrated French Protestant divine, was born in Bretagne about the close of the 16th century : some put the date at 1596, some as late as 1606. His parents died while he was in his infancy, and he was educated under the guidance of his elder brothers. "When yet very young he was made teacher of philosophy at Saumur, where he had been a student. In 1625 lie was made pastor of the Protestant Church at Nantes, and there remained
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until 1632, when he was called, with Amyraklus and Ca- pellus, to a professorship of theology al Saumur. He died in 1665. An excellent teacher and a pious Chris- tian, he yt offended greatly, and provoked much Btrife and controversy by lii- tendency to Arminian theology in his views "ii the doctrine of Imputation i q. v.). The theory ol original -in. a- consisting only in native- cor- ruption, was conde ed by the 1 rench synod of 1645,
though Placaeus himself was not named. Strictlj speak- ing, lii- theory was only a i lification of .lean Camer-
..i. who bad succeeded Gomarus (q. v.) al Sau- mur in 1618. Cameron himself taught, after Piscator, the i hi [ mi at inn of Christ's passu e obedience alone; and advocated the theory of the hypothetic universalism of divine grace, which was more fully developed by Amy- rant. "The peculiarity of Amyraldism," say- Schwei- zrr. •• i- in the combination of a real particularism with n merely ideal universalism." Placaeus accepted the statement of the synod of 1645, by distinguishing be- tween immediate and mediate imputation, and advo- cated the mediate, instead of the immediate imputation of Adam's Bin to lii- posterity. He was opposed by An- ton Garissol (q. v.), professor in Montauban, and de- fended by Charles Drelincourt (q. v.), pastor at Charen- ton. His defence, Disputationes acaa\ mica, sub prasidio ./. Placcei, de imputatione primi peccati Adami, cL ar- quibus efficitur, Christum priusfuisse, quam in utero B. V. conciperetur, et de testimoniis et argumeniis quibus probatur Jesum Christum ess< I hum. was pub- lished at Salm | 1649 51,3 vols. 4to), and in an enlarged form the year of his death (1665), and since. Ili- works (OjH in) were published in collected form atFra- neker in 1699, and again in L702. See Schweizer, Cen- traldogmen, ii. 234 sq., 319; Haag, Hist, des Dogmes; Ebrard, Dogmatik, vol. i. § 13; MilUer, On Sin (see In- dex); Theological Essays from Princeton Review | N. V. 1846), p. 195 sq.; Cunningham, Reformers, p. 379 sq. ; Dorner, Gesch. tier protestant. Theologie, ii. 117; Brit. iiml For. I '.v. Rev. July, 1860, p. 585; New-Englander, July, 1868. i.l. H.W.)