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1. Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law which had been unto life had he kept it, 1and threatened death upon the breach thereof; yet he did not long abide in this honor; 2Satan using the subtilty of the serpent to seduce Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who without any compulsion did willfully transgress the law of their creation and the command given unto them in eating the forbidden fruit; which God was pleased according to his wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
2. Our first parents by this sin fell from their 3original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them, whereby death came upon all; 4all becoming dead in sin and wholly defiled 5in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
3. They being the 6root, and by God’s appointment standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation, being now 7conceived in sin and by nature children 8of wrath, the servants of sin, the subjects 9of death and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus 10set them free.
4. From this original corruption whereby we are 11utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good and wholly inclined to all evil, do 12proceed all actual transgressions.
5. The corruption of nature during this life doth 13remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and the first motions thereof are truly and properly 14sin.
- Genesis 2:16,17 ↩︎
- Genesis 3:12,13; 2 Corinthians 11:3 ↩︎
- Romans 3:23 ↩︎
- Romans 5:12 ↩︎
- Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-19. ↩︎
- Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22,45,49 ↩︎
- Psalm 51:5; Job 14:4 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:3 ↩︎
- Romans 6:20, 5:12 ↩︎
- Hebrews 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ↩︎
- Romans 8:7; Colossians 1:21 ↩︎
- James 1:14,15; Matthew 15:19 ↩︎
- Romans 7:18,23; Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8 ↩︎
- Romans 7:24,25; Galatians 5:17 ↩︎