The harmony

Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof

The Westminster Confession (1646), the Savoy Declaration (1658) and the Second London Confession (1677/1689), paragraph by paragraph. Marked: what each has that the one before it lacks.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

6.1 Our first Parents being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsell to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)

6.1 God having made a Covenant of Works and Life, thereupon, with our first Parents and all their posterity in them, they being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, did wilfully transgress the Law of their Creation, and break the Covenant in eating the forbidden fruit.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

6.1 Although God created Man upright, and perfect, and gave him a righteous Law, which had been unto Life had he kept it, and threatned Death upon the breach thereof; yet he did not long abide in this Honour; Satan using the subtilty of the Serpent to seduce Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who without any compulsion, did wilfully 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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

6.2 By this sin they fell from their originall righteousnesse and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)

6.2 By this sin they, and we in them, fell from original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

6.2 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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

6.3 They being the root of all man-kinde, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature, conveied to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)

6.3 They being the Root, and by Gods appointment standing in the room and stead of all mankinde, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

6.3 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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

6.4 From this originall corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, dis-abled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actuall transgressions.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)

6.4 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.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

6.4 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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

6.5 This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and, although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified, yet both it self, and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658)

6.5 This Corruption of nature during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both it self and all the motions thereof are truely and properly sin.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

6.5 This 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.