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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Quest. XI. What was the Sin whereby our first Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were created?
Quest. XI. WHat was the Sin whereby our first Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were created?
Resp. The Sin was their eating of the forbidden Fruit, Gen. 3.6. —She took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also to her husband.
Here is implied, 1. That our first Parents fell from their State of Innocency. 2. The Sin by which they fell, Eating the forbidden Fruit.
1. Our first Parents fell from their glorious State of Innocency, Eccles. 7.29. God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. Adam was perfectly Holy, he had Rectitude of Mind, and Liberty of Will to good, but his head ached till he had invented his own and our Death, he sought out many Inventions, 1. Adam's Fall was voluntary; he had à Posse non Peccare, a Power not to Fall. Free-will was a sufficient Shield to repel Temptation: the Devil could not have forced him, unless he had given his Consent; Satan was only a Suitor to woe, not a King to compel, but Adam gave away his own Power, and suffered himself to be decoyed into Sin. Like a young Gallant who at one throw looseth a fair Lordship. Adam had a fair Lordship, he was Lord of the World,