Chapter 6
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the
Punishment Thereof
- 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;1 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
willlfully transgress the law of their
creation, and the command given unto
them, in eating the forbidden
fruit;2 which God was
pleased, according to His wise and holy
counsel to permit, having purposed to
order it, to His own glory.
- Our first parents, by this sin, fell
from their original righteousness and
communion with God, and we in them,
whereby death came upon all;3 all becoming dead in
sin,4 and wholly
defiled in all the faculties and parts of
the soul and body.5
- 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,6 being now
conceived in sin,7 and
by nature children of wrath,8 the servants of sin, the
subjects of death,9
and all other miseries, spiritual,
temporal and eternal, unless the Lord
Jesus set them free.10
- From this original corruption,
whereby we are utterly indisposed,
disabled, and made opposite to all good,
and wholly inclined to all
evil,11 do proceed
all actual transgressions.12
- The corruption of nature, during this
life, doth remain in those that are
regenerated;13 and
although it be through Christ pardoned,
and mortified, yet both itself, and the
first motions thereof, are truly and
properly sin.14
Footnotes:
1. Ge
2:16-17.
2. Ge
3:12-13; 2Co 11:3.
3. Ro
3:23.
4. Ro
5:12-21.
5. Tit
1:15; Ge 6:5; Jer 17:9; Ro 3:10-19.
6. Ro
5:12-19; 1Co 15:21-22,45,49.
7. Ps
51:5; Job 14:4.
8. Eph
2:3.
9. Ro
6:20; 5:12.
10.
Heb 2:14-15; 1Th 1:10.
11.
Ro 8:7; Col 1:21.
12.
Jas 1:14-15; Mt 15:19.
13.
Ro 7:18,23; Ecc 7:20; 1Jn 1:8.
14.
Ro 7:23-25; Gal 5:17.
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