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VII. As the providence of GOD doth, in general, reach to all Creatures; ſo after a moſt ſpecial manner, it taketh care of his Church, and diſpoſeth all things to good thereof^[1].

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Chap. VI.

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

OUr firſt Parents being ſeduced by the ſubtilty and temptation of Satan, ſinned in eating the forbidden fruit^[2]. This their ſin, God was pleaſed according to his wiſe and holy counſel, to permit, having purpoſed to order it to his own glory^[3].

II. By this ſin they fell from their original righteouſneſs and communion with God^[4], and ſo became dead in sin^[5], and wholy defiled in all the faculties and parts of ſoul and body^[6].

III. They being the root of all man-kind, the guilt of this ſin was imputed^[7] and the ſame death in ſin and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their poſterity deſcending from them by ordinary generation^[8].

IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indiſpoſed, diſ-abled, and made oppoſite to all good^[9], and wholy inclined to all evil^[10], do proceed all actual transgreſſions^[11].

1. 1 Tim. 4. 10
   Amos 9. 8, 9
   Rom 8. 28
   Iſa. 43. 3, 4, 5, 14
2. Gen 3. 13
   2 Cor 11, 3
3. Rom. 11 32
4. Gen. 3 6, 7, 8
   Eccleſ 7. 29
   Rom 3, 25
5. Gen. 2, 17
   Eph. 2, 1
6. Tit. 1, 15
   Gen. 6, 5
   Ier. 17, 9
   Rom. 3, 10, to 19
7. Gen. 1, 27, 28 & Gen. 2, 16, 17. & Acts 17 13 with Rom. 5, 12, 15, 16, 17 18, 19 & 1 Cor. 15. 21 22, 45
8. Pſal. 51. 5
   Gen. 5. 3
   Iob 14. 4
   Iob 15. 14
9. Rom. 5. 6
   Rom 8. 7
   Rom. 7. 18
   Col. 1. 21
10. Gen. 6. 5
    Gen. 8. 21
    Rom. 3. 10, 11 12
11. Iam. 1. 14, 15
    Eph. 2. 2, 3
    Mat. 15. 19.