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- Our first parents, begin seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
- By this sin they fell from their 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.
- They being the root of mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by original generation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Entries in this series:
- WCF Chapter XXXIII - Of the Last Judgment
- WCF Chapter XXXII - Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead
- WCF Chapter XXXI - Of Synods and Councils
- WCF Chapter XXX - Of Church Censures
- WCF Chapter XXIX - Of the Lord’s Supper
- WCF Chapter XXVIII - Of Baptism
- WCF Chapter XXVII - Of the Sacraments
- Chapter XXVI - Of the Communion of the Saints
- WCF Chapter XXV - of the Church
- WCF Chapter XXIV - Of Marriage and Divorce
- WCF Chapter XXIII - Of the Civil Magistrate
- WCF Chapter XXII - Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
- WCF Chapter XXI - Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
- WCF Chapter XX - Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
- WCF Chapter XIX - Of the Law of God
- WCF Chapter XVII - Of The Perseverance of the Saints
- WCF Chapter XVI - Of Good Works
- WCF Chapter XV - Of Repentance Unto Life
- WCF Chapter XIV - Of Saving Faith
- WCF Chapter XIII - Of Sanctification
- WCF Chapter XII - Of Adoption
- WCF Chapter XI - Of Justification
- WCF Chapter X - Of Effectual Calling
- WCF Chapter IX - Of Free Will
- WCF Chapter VIII - Of Christ the Mediator
- WCF Chapter VII - Of God’s Covenant with Man
- WCF Chapter VI - Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
- WCF Chapter V - Of Providence
- WCF Chapter IV - Of Creation
- WCF Chapter III - Of God’s Eternal Decree
- WCF Chapter II - Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
- WCF Chapter I - Of the Holy Scripture
- Confession: Introduction