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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. All men are guilty before God of two sorts of Sin; of Original, and Actual. Psal. 51.5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Eccles. 7.20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doth good and sinneth not
Q. 2. How can we be guilty of Adam's first Sin?
A. We are guilty of it, because Adam sinned not only as a single, but also as a public Person, and representative of all Mankind. Rom. 5.15, 16, 17. But not as the offence; so also […] 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 ma•, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many, and not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation.
A. We are guilty of it, because Adam sinned not only as a single, but also as a publick Person, and representative of all Mankind. Rom. 5.15, 16, 17. But not as the offence; so also 〈…〉 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 ma•, Iesus Christ, hath abounded unto many, and not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation.