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Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 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.

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Rom. 5:6
[6] For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom. 8:7, Rom. 7:18
[7] For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Col. 1:21
[21] And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
Gen. 6:5
[5] The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen. 8:21
[21] And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Rom. 3:10, 11, 12
[10] as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; [11] no one understands; no one seeks for God. [12] All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
James 1:14, 15
[14] But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. [15] Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Eph. 2:2, 3
[2] in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — [3] among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Matt. 15:19
[19] For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
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Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof

The fall and original sin

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 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 subtlety and temptation of Satan did wilfully transgress the law of their creation, and break the covenant in eating the forbidden fruit.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 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.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 6.3

They being the root, and by God's appointment standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 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.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 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 all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Section 6.6

Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth in its own nature bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries, spiritual, temporal and eternal.