Lesson 6: On original Sin, <$fc

1. How did God punish the disobedience oi oui first parents?

They were stript of original justice and innocence driven out of paradise; and condemned to death with their posterity.*

2. Did God inflict any other punishments on our first parents?

Yes; he deprived them of all right to Heaven, and of several other blessings intended for them.

3. What were the chief blessings intended for our first parents?

A constant state of happiness, if they remained faithful to God.

4. Were we condemned to the same punishments with our first parents?

Yes; we were all made partakers of their sin and punishments: as we would be all sharers in their innocence and happiness, if they had been obedient to God. Rom. v. 12.

5. How do you call the sin of our first parents 1

Original sin.

6. What is original sin?

The sin we inherit from our first parents; and in which we were conceived and born children of wrath. Ephes. ii. 3.

Q» Why is it called original sin?

A, Because it is transmitted to us from our first parents, and we came into the world infected with it; and because it is the origin and source of avary evil and misery to us. Rom. v. 12.

7. What other particular effects follow from the sin of our first parents?

It darkened our understanding; weakened our will; and left in us a strong inclination to evil.

8. What is the reason that darkness in our understanding, weakness in our will, and a propensity to evil, still remain, with many other temporal punishments, after original sin is forgiven I

To serve as an occasion of merit to us; by resisting our corrupt inclinations, and by bearing patiently the suffering of this life.