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

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

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

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

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 faculties and parts of soul and body.^c

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

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

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

From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, dis-abled, and made opposite to all good,^a and wholly inclined to all evil,^b do proceed all actual transgressions.^c

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

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 it self, and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.^b

Every sin, both Originall and Actuall, being a transgression of the righteous Law of God, and contrary thereunto,^a doth, 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 spirituall,^f temporall,^g and eternall.^h

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