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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. VI. Of the fall of Man, of Sin, and of the punishment thereof.
Our first parents being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruita. This their sin, God was pleased according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to's own gloryb
OUr first parents being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruita. This their sin, God was pleased according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purpos'd to order it to's own gloryb
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God