Of the Fall of Man, Sin and Punishment
I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and
temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.a This their sin,
God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to
order it to His own glory.b
a. Gen. 3:13; II Cor. 11:3.
b. Rom. 11:32.
II. By this sin they fell from their original
righteousness and communion, with God,a and so became dead in sin,b
and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.c
a. Gen. 3:6-8; Eccl. 7:29; Rom. 3:23.
b. Gen. 2:17; Eph. 2:1.
c. Tit. 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10-18.
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of
this sin was imputed;a and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature,
conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.b
a. Gen. 1:27-28; 2:16-17; Acts 17:26; Rom. 5:12, 15-19;
I Cor. 15:21-22, 45, 49.
b. Ps. 51:5; Gen. 5:3; Job 14:4; 15:14.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are
utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,a and wholly
inclined to all evil,b do proceed all actual transgressions.c
a. Rom. 5:6; 8:7; 7:18; Col 1:21.
b. Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Rom. 3:10-12.
c. James 1:14-15; Eph. 2:2-3; Matt. 15:19.
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, does
remain in those that are regenerated;a and although it be, through Christ,
pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and
properly sin.ba. I John 1:8, 10; Rom. 7:14, 17-18, 23; James 3:2; Prov. 20:9;
Eccl. 7:20.b. Rom. 7:5, 7-8, 25; Gal. 5:17.VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being
a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,a does, in
its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,b whereby he is bound over to the
wrath of God,c and curse of the law,d and so made subject to death,e
with all miseries spiritual,f temporal,g and eternal.h
a. I John 3:4.
b. Rom. 2:15; 3:9, 19.
c. Eph. 2:3.
d. Gal. 3:10.
e. Rom. 6:23.
f. Eph. 4:18.
g. Rom. 8:20; Lam. 3:39.
h. Matt. 25:41; II Thess. 1:9.
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