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Q4. What was the Evil of Sin ?

A. A threefold Evil of Sin: First, against God, called Difobedience, Rom. v. 19. For as by one Man's Difobedience many were made Sinners: Secondly, against himself, Soul, Body, and Estate: Thirdly, againit his Pofterity, Rom. v. 12. Wherefore as by one Man Sin entered into the World, and Death by Sin; and so Death possed upon all Men, for that all have finned.

Q5. What was the Evil of Punishment ?

A. First, Lofs of God's Image: Secondly, Horror of Confcience: Thirdly, Sorrow on the Female Sex: Fourthly, Curfe on the Creature: Fifthly, Expulfion from Paradife: Sixthly, Death both of Body and Soul.

Q. 6. What is the firft Infruction from it?

A. To take heed of fmall Beginnings of Temptations, and refit it in the firit Motions, Jam. iii. 5. Behold how great a Matter a little Fire kinaleth.

Q7. What is the fecond Inference?

A. Not to hold a parly with the Tempter. See 2 Cor. xi. 3. But I fear left by any Means, as the Serpent beguiled Eve, through his Subtilty; Jo your Minds fhould be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Chrift.

Q8. What is the third Inference?

A. That Satan's Policy lies much in the Choice of his tempting Inftruments, as Eve and Peter, &c.

Q. 9. What is the fourth Inference?

A. A Neceffity of keeping ftrong Guards on our Senfes, Ifa. xxxiii. 15. That ftorpeth his Ears from bearing of Blood, and futteth his Eyes from Seeing Evil, he Jhall dwell on high, bis Place of Defence fhall be the Munition of Rocks.

Q. 10. What is the fifth Inference?

A. That Covenant-breaking is a heinous Sin, which God will punith, Hof. viii. 1. He all come as an Eagle against the Houfe of the Lord, because they have tranfgreffed my Covenant, and trefpaffed against my Laws.

Q. 11. What is the laft Inference?

A. That the Corruption of our Nature is much feen in defiring forbidden Things, Rom. vii. 7. What shall we fay then? Is the Law Sin? God forbid: Nay, I had not known Sin but by the Law; for I had not knowva Luft, except the Law had faid, Thou shalt not covet.

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Of the Fall of Adam, and ours in him.

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ID all Mankind fall in Adam's firft Tranfgreffion?

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A. The Covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his Pofterity; all Mankind defcending from him by ordinary Generation, finned in him, and fell with him in his firft Tranfgreffion.

Q. 1. Did no Man ever efcape the Sin of Adam?

A. Yes, the Man Chrift Jefus did, and he only, Heb. vii. 26. For fuch an high Priest became us, who is holy, harmlefs, undefiled, Jeparate from Sinners.

Q. 2. Why was not Chrift tainted with it?

A. Because he came into the World in an extraordinary Way, Mat. i. 18. Now the Birth of Chrift was on this wife, when as his Mother Mary was efpoufed to Jofeph, before they came together, she was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.

Q. 3. How doth it appear all others were tainted with it? A. It appears by Scripture-Teftimony, Rom. v. 12. Wherefore as by one Man Sin entered into the World, and Death by Sin, and fo Death paffed upon all Men, for that all have fin-, ned. And Experience of the best Men, Rom. vii. 21. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, Evil is prefent with me.

Q4. How came all Men to fall with Adam?

A. Because all were included in Adam's Covenant, as a Man's Covenant includes his Children before they be born; or the Treafon of the Father affects his Pofterity.

Q: 5: What infer you from hence?

A. The ftupendious Wildom of God in fending Christ in our Nature, and yet without the Sin and taint of it, 1 Cor. i. 24. Chrift the Wisdom of God.

Q. 6. What is the fecond Inference?

A. Hence we learn the admirable Love of Chrift in ta king our Nature, with all the finlefs Infirmities thereof, Rom. viii. 3. For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the Flesh, God fending his own Son in the Likeness of finful Flesh, and for Sin condemned Sin in the Flef.

7. What is the third Inference ?.

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A. The Neceffity of our Union with Christ, in Order to our Participation of his Righteoufnefs and Redemption, 1 Cor. xv. 22. For as in Adam all die, fo in Christ shall all be made alive.

Q. 8. What is the fourth Inference ?

A. Hence we learn the malignant and mortal Nature of Sin, in as much as our Sin defiled and destroyed a whole World.

Q.9. What is the fifth Inference ?

A. That though all be not equally fenfible of their Need, yet one Sinner needs Christ as much as another.

Q. 10. What is the last Inference ?

A. That no Man hath any Caufe or Reafon to boast of the Goodness of his Nature, fince the beft were by Nature under the fame Sin and Mifery as the worst, Eph. ii. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our Converfation in Times paft, in the Luft of our Flesh, fulfilling the Defires of the Flesh, and of the Mind, and were by Nature the Children of Wrath even as others.

Of Original Sin.

Queft. 17, INTO, what Eftate did the Fall bring Man-'

kind?

A. The Fall brought Mankind into an Eftate of Sin and Mifery.

Q. 18. Wherein confits the Sinfulness of that Eftate whereinto Man fell?

A. The finfulness of that Eftate whereinto Man fell, confifs in the Guilt of Adam's firft Sin, the Want of original Righteoufnefs, and the Corruption of his whole Nature, which is commonly called original Sin; together with all actual Tranfgreffions which proceed from Sin.

Q. How many Sorts of Sin are all Men under ?

A. All Men are guilty before God of two Sorts of Sin; of Original and Actual, Pfal. li. 5. Behold, I was hapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me, Ecclef. vii. 20. For there is not a juft Man upon Earth, that doeth good and finneth not.

Q. 2. How can we be guilty of Adam's first Sin ?

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A. We are guilty of it, because Adam finned not only as a fingle, but also as a publick Perfon, and Representative of all Mankind, Rom. v. 15, 16, 17. But not as the Offence; so alfo is the free Gift; for if through the Offence of one, many be dead: much more the Grace of God, and the Gift by Grace, which is by one Man, Jefus Chrift, hath abounded unto many, and not as it was by one that finned, fo is the Gift; for the Judgment was by one to Condemnation.

Q. 3. How elfe cane we under his Guilt?

A. We are guilty of his Sin by Generation, for we were in his Loins; as Treafon ftains the Blood of the Pofterity, or the Parents Leprofy the Children, Pfal. li. 5. Behold I was fhapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me. Q4. Wherein doth it confift?

A. It confifts in two Things: First, in our Averfion and Enmity to that which is good, Rom vii. 18. In me, that is, in my Flesh, there dwelleth no good Thing: Secondly, In Proneness to Evil, Rom. vii. 14. But I am carnal, fold under Sin.

Q5. Is this Corruption of Nature in all Men ?

A. Yes, In all meer Men and Women, none exempted, Rom. iii. 10. and 23. As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one, for all have finned, and come short of the Glory of

God.

Q. 6. In what Part of our Nature doth this Sin abide ?

A. It abides in the whole Man, in every Part of Man, both Soul and Body, Gen. vi. 5. God faw that the Wickednefs of Man was great in the Earth, and that every Imagination of the Thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually, Thef. v. 23. Now the God of Peace fanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole Spirit, and Soul, and Body, be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

Q. 7. How is the Body infected by it?

A. In the readinefs of the bodily Members to further Sin, and its Temptations in the Soul, Rom. iii. 13, 14, 15. Their Throat an open Sepulcher, with their Tongues they have ufed Deceit, the Poijon of Afps is under their Lips, whoje Mouth is full of Curfing and Bitterness, their Feet are fwift to fred Blood.

Q. 8. What learn we from Original Sin?

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A. To bear patiently the Miseries we fee on our Children, and their Death alfo without Murmuring, Rom. v. 14. Nevertheless Death reigned from Adam to Mofes, even over them that had not finned, after the Similitude of Adam's Transgreffion.

Q. 9. What is the second Instruction?

A. It teaches us Humility, and should be Matter of Confeffion and Humiliation, when we fin actually, Pfal. li. 5. Behold I was fhapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother con

ceive me.

Q. 10. What is the third Inftruction?

A. It should provoke Parents to use their utmost Diligence for the Converfion of their Children, who draw Sin from them.

Q. What is the laft Inftruction?

A. It teaches us the Neceflity of Regeneration, and should provoke us greatly to delire it.

Of Man's Mifery.

Queft. 19. WHAT is the Mifery of that Estate

whereinto Man fell?

A. All Mankind by their Fall loft Communion with God, are under his Wrath and Curfe; and fo made liable to all Miferies in this Life, to Death itself, and to the Pains of Hell for ever.

Q. 1. What Communion had God with Man before the Fall?

A. Man then enjoyed the gracious Prefence and Favour, of God with him, which was better than Life.

Q2. How doth it appear this was loft by the Fall?

A. It appears by Scripture-Teftimony, That Adam loft it as to himself, Gen iii. 8. And Adam and his Wife hid themselves from the Prefence of the Lord God, among the Trees of the Garden. And we in him, Eph. ii. 12. At that. Time ye were without Chrift, being Aliens from the Commonwealth of Ifrael, and Strangers from the Covenants of Promise, having no Hope, and without God in the World.

Q3. Was this the only Mifery that came by the Fall? A. No;

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