Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
6 paragraphs
Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. 1 This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory. 2
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By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, 1 and so became dead in sin, 2 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body. 3
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They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, 1 and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation. 2
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From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, 1 and wholly inclined to all evil, 2 do proceed all actual transgressions. 3
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This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; 1 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin. 2
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Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, 1 doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, 2 whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God 3 and curse of the law, 4 and so made subject to death, 5 with al…
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