Pastor Patrick Hines of Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, TN
Pastor Jim Thornton of Reformed Faith Presbyterian Church in Clarksville, TN
Pastor Henry Johnson of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tazwell, VA
CHAP. VI.—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 (Gen. 3:13; 2 Cor. 11:3). This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory (Rom. 11:32).
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion (Gen. 3:6-8; Eccl. 7:29; Rom. 3:23), with God, and so became dead in sin (Gen. 2:17; Eph. 2:1), and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body (Titus 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10-18).
III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed (Gen. 1:27-28; 2:16-17; Acts 17:26; Rom. 5:12, 15-19; 1 Cor. 15:21-22, 45, 49); and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation (Ps. 51:5; Gen. 5:3; Job 14:4; 15:14).
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good (Rom. 5:6; 8:7; 7:18; Col. 1:21), and wholly inclined to all evil (Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Rom. 3:10-12), do proceed all actual transgressions (James 1:14-15; Eph. 2:2-3; Matt. 15:19).
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated (1 John 1:8, 10; Rom. 7:14, 17-18, 23; James 3:2; Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20); and although it be, through Christ, pardoned and mortified; |
