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;a 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.b
Our first Parents by this Sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them, whereby Death came upon all;a all becoming dead in Sin, and wholly defiled,b in all the faculties, and parts of Soul and Body.c
a. Romans 3:23
Romans 3:23
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b. Romans 5:12
Romans 5:12
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c. Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10–19
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 nowa conceived in Sin, and by nature Childrenb of Wrath, the Servants of Sin, the subjectsc of Death, and all other Miseries, Spiritual, Temporal and Eternal; unless the Lord Jesusd set them free.e
From this original Corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholy inclined to all Evil, doa proceed all actual Transgressions.b
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 properlya Sin.b
