Section 1

Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.[1] This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.[2]

Section 2

By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,[1] and so became dead in sin,[2] and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.[3]

Section 3

They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,[1] and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.[2]

Section 4

From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,[1] and wholly inclined to all evil,[2] do proceed all actual transgressions.[3]

Section 5

This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;[1] and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.[2]

Section 6

Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,[1] doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,[2] whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God[3] and curse of the law,[4] and so made subject to death,[5] with all miseries spiritual,[6] temporal,[7] and eternal.[8]