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