# Ii. Of The Fall Of Man.

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We believe and confess, according to the holy
Scriptures, that these our first parents, Adam and
Eve, did not continue long in this glorious state in
which they were created, but that they, seduced by
the subtlety and deceit of the serpent, and the envy
of the devil, transgressed the high commandment
of God and became disobedient to their Creator;
through which disobedience sin has come into the
world, and death by sin, which has thus passed
upon all men, for that all have sinned, and, hence,
brought upon themselves the wrath of God, and
condemnation; for which reason they were of God
driven out of paradise, or the pleasure garden, to till
the earth, in sorrow to eat of it, and to eat their
bread in the sweat of their face, till they should
return to the earth, from which they were taken;
and that they, therefore, through this one sin, became
so ruined, separated, and estranged from God,
that they, neither through themselves, nor through
any of their descendants, nor through angels, nor
men, nor any other creature in heaven or on earth,
could be raised up, redeemed, or reconciled to God,
but would have had to be eternally lost, had not
God, in compassion for his creatures, made provision
for it, and interposed with his love and mercy.
Gen. 3:6; 4 Esdr. 3:7; Rom. 5:12,18; Gen. 3:23;
Ps. 49:8; Rev. 5:9; John 3:16.



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