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The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 6.3
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| They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation,1 being now conceived in sin,2 and by nature children of wrath,3 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,4 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.5 |
[1]
Romans 5:12–19; 1 Corinthians 15:21–22, 45, 49
[2]
Psalm 51:5; Job 14:4
[3]
Ephesians 2:3
[4]
Romans 6:20; 5:12
[5]
Hebrews 2:14–15; 1 Thessalonians 1:10
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From where does man’s corrupt nature come?
It is conveyed from our first parents through ordinary generation
It is conveyed from our first parents through the laying on of hands
Each is born sinless and becomes corrupt upon committing sin for the first time
Man’s corrupt nature is placed in him by Satan
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