Second London Baptist Confession of Faith · Chapter 6
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
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1. Although God created Man upright, and perfect, and gave him a righteous Law, which had been unto Life had he kept it, and threatned Death upon the breach thereof; yet he did not long abide in this Honour;a Satan using the subtilty of the Serpent to seduce Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who without any compulsion, did wilfully transgress the Law of their Creation, and the Command given unto them, in eating the forbidden Fruit; which God was pleased according to his wise and holy Counsel to permit, having purposed to order it, to his own Glory.b
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Related texts
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (modernized, 1689) 6.1
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 6.1
- Philadelphia Confession of Faith (1742) 6.1
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658) 6.1
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 6.1
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