6. Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin, And Of The Punishment Thereof
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6. Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin, And Of The Punishment Thereof
Paragraph 1: Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,106 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety 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,107 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
Paragraph 1: Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,106 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety 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,107 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
Paragraph 2: Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:108 all becoming dead in sin,109 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.110
110. Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10–19
Paragraph 2: Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:108 all becoming dead in sin,109 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.110
Paragraph 3: They being the root, 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,111 being now conceived in sin,112 and by nature children of wrath,113 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,114 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.115
Paragraph 3: They being the root, 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,111 being now conceived in sin,112 and by nature children of wrath,113 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,114 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.115
Paragraph 4: From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,116 do proceed all actual transgressions.117
Paragraph 4: From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,116 do proceed all actual transgressions.117
Paragraph 5: The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;118 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.119
118.Romans 7:18, 23; Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8
Paragraph 5: The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;118 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.119