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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
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. Two things.
1. His transgression in eating the forbidden fruit. Gen. 2.17. 2. The propagation of this unto all Adam's posterity.
Q. Was this so great a sin, to eat of the forbidden fruit?
A. Yes, exceeding great, this Tree being a ⟨p. 11⟩Sacrament of the Covenant: also he had a special charge not to eat of it: and in it the whole man did strike against the whole law, even when God had so highly advanced him.
Q. What are the causes of this transgression?