#14 Question: What is Sin?
Answer: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
Answer: The sin whereby
our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their
eating of the forbidden fruit.
Answer: The covenant being
made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind,
descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him,
in his first transgression.
Answer: The fall brought
mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Answer: The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgression which proceed from it.
#19 Question: What is the misery whereinto man fell?
Answer: All
mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse,
and so made liable, to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to
the pains of hell forever.
