A96226:52
The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now
The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now by authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning a confession of faith, presented by them lately to both houses of Parliament. A certain number of copies are ordered to be printed only for the use of the members of both houses and of the Assembly of Divines, to the end that they may advise thereupon.
London: printed for Company of Stationers, 1646
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.
III. They being the root of all man-kind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
III. They being the root of all man-kinde, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, dis-abled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
IV. From this originall corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, dis-abled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actuall transgressions.
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and, although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified, yet both it self, and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.
VI. Every-sin, both Original and Actual, being a transgression of the righteous Law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner; whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the Law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.