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 15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. ; 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 26 and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined `their' appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; ; 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 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. ; 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 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. ; 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 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. , 10; Rom. 7:14, 17-18, 23; James 3:2 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. ; Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20); and although it be, through Christ, pardoned and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin (Rom. 7:5, 7-8, 25; Gal. 5:17). VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto ( 1 John 3:4 4 Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. ), doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner (Rom. 2:15; 3:9, 19); whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God (Eph. 2:3), and curse of the law (Gal. 3:10), and so made subject to death (Rom. 6:23), with all miseries spiritua1 (Eph. 4:18), temporal (Rom. 8:20; Lam. 3:39), and eternal (Matt. 25:41; 2 Thess. 1:9).