#14
Question: What is Sin?
Answer: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of
God.
#15
Question: What was the sin whereby our first
parents fell from the estate wherein they were first created?
Answer: The sin whereby
our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their
eating of the forbidden fruit.
#16
Question: Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first
transgression?
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.
#17
Question: Into what estate did the fall bring
mankind?
Answer: The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
#18
Question: Wherein Consists the sinfulness of that
estate wherein man fell?
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.
Recommended
Sermon: WSC #14-19: God’s Glory in Sin and in the Fall, by Dennis Prutow [Text: Isaiah 66:24 (Audio); Mark 9:47,48 (Audio)]