1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit this sin of theirs, having planned to use it to his own glory.

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

3. Because they were the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation; and the same death in sin and the same corrupted nature was conveyed to their posterity.

4. All of our actual transgressions proceed from this original corruption, by which we are utterly unwilling, disabled, made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil.

5. This corruption of nature remains in those who are regenerated during this life. Although it is pardoned and mortified through Christ, yet this nature itself and all the actions coming from it are truly and properly sin.

6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God and contrary to it, by its nature brings guilt on the sinner, by which the sinner is bound over to the wrath of God and the curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all manner of spiritual, temporal, and eternal miseries.