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Q. 1. How came this weakness and disability upon us?

A. By the sin and40 shameful fall of our first parents.
Rom. v. 12, 14.

Q. 2. Wherein did that hurt us, their posterity?

A. Divers ways; first, ain that we were all guilty of the same breach of covenant with Adam, being all in him; secondly, bour souls with his were deprived of that holiness, innocence, and righteousness wherein they were at first created; thirdly, cpollution and defilement of nature came upon us; with, fourthly, dan extreme disability of doing any thing that is well-pleasing unto God; eby all which we are made obnoxious to the curse.
aJohn iii. 36; Rom. v. 12; Eph. ii. 3. bGen. iii. 10; Eph iv. 23, 24; Col. iii. 10. cJob xiv. 4; Ps. li. 7; John iii. 6; Rom. iii. 13. dGen. vi. 5; Eph. ii. 1; Jer. vi. 16, xiii. 23; Rom. viii. 7. eGen. iii. 17; Gal. iii. 10.

Q. 3. Wherein doth the curse of God consist?

A. In divers things; first, ain the41 guilt of death, temporal and eternal; secondly, bthe loss of the grace and favour of God; thirdly, cguilt and horror of conscience, despair and anguish here; with, fourthly, deternal damnation hereafter.
aGen. ii. 17; Rom. i. 18, v. 12, 17; Eph. ii. 3. bGen. iii. 24; Ezek. xvi. 3–5; Eph ii. 13. cGen. iii. 10; Isa. xlviii. 22; Rom. iii. 9, 19, Gal. iii. 22. dGen. iii. 10, 13; John iii. 36.

Q. 4. Are all men born in this estate?

A. Every one without exception.
Ps. li. 5; Isa. liii. 6; Rom. iii. 9–12; Eph. ii. 3.

Q. 5. And do they continue therein?

A. Of themselves42 they cannot otherwise do, being able neither to aknow, nor bwill, nor cdo any thing that is spiritually good and pleasing unto God.
aActs viii. 31, xvi. 14; 1 Cor. ii. 14; Eph. v. 8; John i. 5. bJer. vi. 16, xiii. 23; Luke iv. 18; Rom. vi. 16, viii. 7. cJohn vi. 44; 2 Cor. iii. 5.

478Q. 6. Have they, then, no way of themselves to escape the curse and wrath of God?

A. None at all; they can neither satisfy his justice, nor fulfil his law.







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