Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof.- OUR
first parents being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan,
sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. [1] This their sin God was
pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having
purposed to order it to his own glory. [2].
- By
this sin they fell from their original righteousness, and communion
with God,c and so became dead in sin,d and wholly defiled in all the
faculties and parts of soul and body.e
- They
being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,f and
the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their
posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.g
- From
this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled,
and made opposite to all good,h and wholly inclined to all evil,i do
proceed all actual transgressions.k
- This
corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are
regenerated; [11] and, although it be through Christ pardoned and
mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof, are truly and
properly sin. [12].
- Every
sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous
law of God, and contrary thereunto, [13] doth, in its own nature, bring
guilt upon the sinner, [14] whereby he is bound over to the wrath of
God, [15] and curse of the law, [16] and so made subject to death, [17]
with all miseries spiritual,[18] temporal, [19] and eternal. [20].
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