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exchanged for the consciousness of guilt, remorse, and fear. The image of God within the Soul was sensibly defaced. Condemnation of the man to toil and sorrow, and of the woman to the pains of childbirth and subservience to her husband, was followed by their expulsion from the delightful scene of their former happiness. As a monument of the divine wrath, the nature of the serpent, the minister of evil, was debased. The earth was cursed with noxious weeds and comparative sterility; and the whole face of nature was deteriorated and subjected to disorder.

§ 8. By the Fall of Adam, his human body became obnoxious to pain, disease, and death; his intellectual faculties were impaired and darkened; his free-will inclined to evil instead of good, and rendered liable to the dominion of unruly passions and propensities, tending to vice, terminating in the dissolution of the body, and meriting condemnation of the soul to future punishment.

§ 9. By Original Sin is meant the hereditary stain and corruption of nature which is the consequence of apostacy and breach of covenant in our first Parents, entailed upon all mankind, who were comprehended and represented by them in their crime.

§ 10. The Essence of Original Sin, the inheritance of every one who is born after the common course of nature of the posterity of Adam, consists in these par. ticulars that man is far gone from original righteousness, and strongly inclined to evil; that he is destitute of those peculiar graces which formed in a

faculties are depraved; and that, in consequence of the weakness and corruption of his nature, he is incapable of willing and seeking rightly his present or future spiritual happiness, without the preventing and co-operating aid of God's most holy Spirit.

§ 11. The guilt of the first transgression, and the punishment denounced against it, are so imputed, or reckoned as belonging to the whole posterity of Adam, that no one can be born into the world free from the stain of guilt, and exempt from liability to punishment: thus all are by nature born in sin, and the children of wrath.

§ 12. The imputation of the guilt of original Sin, and the liability to condemnation on that account, are removed by Regeneration, by being born again of water and the Spirit, in the Sacrament of Baptism ; but the infection or inherited corruption of nature still continues, even in the regenerate, to incline to fleshly passions, and to transgression of the divine laws and, as being the source of actual sin, the cause from which such ill effects proceed, it must of itself partake of the nature of Sin, and deserve the wrath of God.

§ 13. The perfect free-will uninfluenced by evil propensities, with which Adam was endowed, was forfeited by his abuse of so great a blessing: and it then ceased to be in the power of man to please his Maker by any such works of righteousness, as he is able to perform by his own inherent strength and natural ability. Free-will is therefore, now, a power of Reason and Will united, by which good is chosen, with the assistance of grace, and evil is chosen without such assistance.

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From Scripture.

SECTION 1.

Gen. ii. 8. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he had put the man whom he had formed. Gen. ii. 23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Gen. iii. 20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Gen, i. 28. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen, ji. 19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Gen. ii. 9. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gen. ii. 15. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it. Gen. i. 29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Job xxxv. 10, 11. But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night; Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,

faculties are depraved; and that, in consequence of the weakness and corruption of his nature, he is incapable of willing and seeking rightly his present of future spiritual happiness, without the preventing and co-operating aid of God's most holy Spirit.

§ 11. The guilt of the first transgression, and th punishment denounced against it, are so imputed, o reckoned as belonging to the whole posterity ( Adam, that no one can be born into the world fre from the stain of guilt, and exempt from liability punishment: thus all are by nature born in sin, al the children of wrath.

§ 12. The imputation of the guilt of original S and the liability to condemnation on that accou are removed by Regeneration, by being born again water and the Spirit, in the Sacrament of Baptis but the infection or inherited corruption of nat still continues, even in the regenerate, to incline fleshly passions, and to transgression of the div laws and, as being the source of actual sin, cause from which such ill effects proceed, it must itself partake of the nature of Sin, and deserve wrath of God.

§ 13. The perfect free-will uninfluenced by propensities, with which Adam was endowed, forfeited by his abuse of so great a blessing: an then ceased to be in the power of man to pleas Maker by any such works of righteousness, as able to perform by his own inherent strength and tural ability. Free-will is therefore, now, a pow Reason and Will united, by which good is cho with the assistance of grace, and evil is chosen v out such assistance.

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