Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, Of Sin,
And of the Punishment Thereof
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, yet he did not long abide in this honour;
Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue 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.
(
Genesis 2:16, 17;
Genesis 3:12,13;
2 Corinthians 11:3
)
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: all becoming dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all
the faculties and parts of soul and body.
(
Romans 3:23;
Romans 5:12, etc;
Titus 1:15;
Genesis 6:5;
Jeremiah 17:9;
Romans 3:10-19
)
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, being now conceived in sin, and by nature
children of wrath, the servants of sin, the subjects of death, and all
other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus
set them free.
(
Romans 5:12-19;
1 Corinthians 15:21, 22, 45, 49;
Psalms 51:5;
Job 14:4;
Ephesians 2:3;
Romans 6:20
Romans 5:12;
Hebrews 2:14, 15;
1 Thessalonians 1:10
)
4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed,
disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,
do proceed all actual transgressions.
(
Romans 8:7;
Colossians 1:21;
James 1:14, 15;
Matthew 15:19
)
5. The corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain 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 sin.
(
Romans 7:18,23;
Ecclesiastes 7:20;
1 John 1:8;
Romans 7:23-25;
Galatians 5:17
)
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