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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.

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1 John 1:8, 10
[8] If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [10] If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Rom. 7:14, 17, 18, 23
[14] For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. [17] So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. [18] For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. [23] but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
James 3:2
[2] For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Prov. 20:9
[9] Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?
Eccles. 7:20
Rom. 7:5, 7, 8, 25
[5] For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. [7] What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” [8] But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Gal. 5:17
[17] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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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.