{"number":13,"title":"Did our First Parents continue in the Estate wherein they were created?","part":null,"questions":[13],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"Did our First Parents continue in the Estate wherein they were created?","answer":"Our First Parents being left to the Freedom of their own Will, fell from the Estate wherein they were created by sinning against God.","segments":[{"text":"Our First Parents being left to the Freedom of their own Will, fell from the Estate wherein they were created by sinning against God.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Is Man now in the State wherein he was created?","answer":"No. For God made Man upright, but they have sought out many Inventions,","segments":[{"text":"No. For God made Man upright, but they have sought out many Inventions,","proofs":["Ecclesiastes 7:29"],"refs":[{"printed":"Ecclesiastes 7:29","osis":["Eccl.7.29"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Can we now say we are perfectly Holy?","answer":"No. If I say I am perfect, it shall prove me perverse,","segments":[{"text":"No. If I say I am perfect, it shall prove me perverse,","proofs":["Job 9:20"],"refs":[{"printed":"Job 9:20","osis":["Job.9.20"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Can we say we are perfectly Happy?","answer":"No. For Man is born to trouble,","segments":[{"text":"No. For Man is born to trouble,","proofs":["Job 5:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Job 5:7","osis":["Job.5.7"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Are we as we were then?","answer":"No. Man was planted a noble Vine, but is turn’d into the degenerate Plant of a strange Vine,","segments":[{"text":"No. Man was planted a noble Vine, but is turn’d into the degenerate Plant of a strange Vine,","proofs":["Jeremiah 2:21"],"refs":[{"printed":"Jeremiah 2:21","osis":["Jer.2.21"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Did Man continue long in his state of Innocency?","answer":"No. For Man being in Honour abideth not,","segments":[{"text":"No. For Man being in Honour abideth not,","proofs":["Psalm 49:12"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 49:12","osis":["Ps.49.12"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Did God leave Man to the Freedom of his own Will?","answer":"Yes. For if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it,","proofs":["Proverbs 9:12"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 9:12","osis":["Prov.9.12"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Did God draw Adam to Sin?","answer":"No. For God tempteth no Man,","segments":[{"text":"No. For God tempteth no Man,","proofs":["James 1:13"],"refs":[{"printed":"James 1:13","osis":["Jas.1.13"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is he any way the Anthor of Sin?","answer":"No. Far be it from God that he should do Wickedness,","segments":[{"text":"No. Far be it from God that he should do Wickedness,","proofs":["Job 34:10"],"refs":[{"printed":"Job 34:10","osis":["Job.34.10"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Did he do what was fit to be done to prevent it?","answer":"Yes. What could have been done more to my Vineyard?","segments":[{"text":"Yes. What could have been done more to my Vineyard?","proofs":["Isaiah 5:4"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 5:4","osis":["Isa.5.4"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was he oblig’d to do more?","answer":"No. For may he not do what he will with his own?","segments":[{"text":"No. For may he not do what he will with his own?","proofs":["Matthew 20:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Matthew 20:15","osis":["Matt.20.15"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Doth all the blame of Man’s Sin lye upon himself then?","answer":"Yes. O Israel thou hast destroy’d thy self,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. O Israel thou hast destroy’d thy self,","proofs":["Hosea 13:9"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hosea 13:9","osis":["Hos.13.9"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Did Man fall by sinning against God?","answer":"Yes. Thou hast fallen by thine Iniquity,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou hast fallen by thine Iniquity,","proofs":["Hosea 14:1"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hosea 14:1","osis":["Hos.14.1"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Was that the beginning of Sin in this World?","answer":"Yes. For by one Man Sin entred into the World,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by one Man Sin entred into the World,","proofs":["Romans 5:12"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 5:12","osis":["Rom.5.12"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}]}],"text":null}