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

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

I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.¹³⁰ This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.¹³¹

II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,¹³² and so became dead in sin,¹³³ and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.¹³⁴

III. They being the root of all mankind,¹³⁵ 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 ordinary generation.¹³⁶

IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,¹³⁷ and wholly inclined to all evil,¹³⁸ do proceed all actual transgressions.¹³⁹

V. This corruption of nature,

during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;¹⁴⁰ and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.¹⁴¹

VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,¹⁴² doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,¹⁴³ whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God¹⁴⁴ and curse of the law,¹⁴⁵ and so made subject to death,¹⁴⁶ with all miseries spiritual,¹⁴⁷ temporal,¹⁴⁸ and eternal.¹⁴⁹