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 Chapter 6 - Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of its Punishment

  1) Our first parents being seduced by the subtilty and temptation
     of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.

         # Ge 3:13 2Co 11:3

     This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy
     counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.

         # Ro 11:32
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 Chapter 6 - Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of its Punishment

  2) By this sin they fell from their original righteousness, and
     communion with God,

         # Ge 3:6-8 Ec 7:29 Ro 3:23

     and so became dead in sin,

         # Ge 2:17 Eph 2:1

     and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.

         # Tit 1:15 Ge 6:5 Jer 17:9 Ro 3:10-18
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  3) They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was
     imputed,

         # Ge 1:27,28 2:16,17 Ac 17:26 Ro 5:12,15-19 1Co 15:21,22,45,49

     and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all
     their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation.

         # Ps 51:5 Ge 5:3 Job 14:4 15:14
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  4) From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed
     disabled, and made opposite to all good,

         # Ro 5:6 8:7 7:18 Col 1:21

     and wholly inclined to all evil,

         # Ge 6:5 8:21 Ro 3:10-12

     do proceed all actual transgressions.

         # Jas 1:14,15 Eph 2:2,3 Mt 15:19
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  5) This corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those
     that are regenerated:

         # 1Jo 1:8,10 Ro 7:14,17,18,23 Jas 3:2 Pr 20:9 Ec 7:20

     and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet
     both itself, and all its motions, are truly and properly sin.

         # Ro 7:5,7,8,25 Ga 5:17
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  6) Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of
     the righteous law of God, and contrary to it,

         # 1Jo 3:4

     does, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,

         # Ro 2:15 3:9,19

     whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God,

         # Eph 2:3

     and curse of the law,

         # Ga 3:10

     and so made subject to death,

         # Ro 6:23

     with all miseries spiritual,

         # Eph 4:18

     temporal,

         # Ro 8:20 La 3:39

     and eternal.

         # Mt 25:41 2Th 1:9
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 Chapter 7 - Of God's Covenant with Man

  1) The distance between God and the creature is so great, that
     although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their
     Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their
     blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on
     God's part, which he has been pleased to express by way of
     covenant.

         # Isa 40:13-17 Job 9:32,33 1Sa 2:25 Ps 113:5,6
         # Ps 100:2,3 Job 22:2,3 35:7,8 Lu 17:10 Ac 17:24,25
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  2) The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,

         # Ga 3:12

     wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity,

         # Ro 10:5 Ro 5:12-20

     upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.

         # Ge 2:17 Ga 3:10
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  3) Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that
     covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second,

         # Ga 3:21 Ro 8:3 Ro 3:20,21 Ge 3:15 Isa 42:6

     commonly called the Covenant of Grace: whereby he freely offers
     to sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring faith
     in him, that they may be saved;

         # Mr 16:15,16 Joh 3:16 Ro 10:6,9 Ga 3:11

     promising to give to all those that ordained to life his Holy
     Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.

         # Eze 36:26,27 Joh 6:44,45
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  4) This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in the scripture
     by the name of a Testament, in reference to the death of Jesus
     Christ the testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with
     all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed.

         # Heb 9:15-17 7:22 Lu 22:20 1Co 11:25
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  5) This covenant was administered differently in the time of the
     law, and in the time of the gospel;

         # 2Co 3:6-9

     under the law it was administered by promises, prophecies,
     sacrifices, circumcision, the paschal lamb, and other types and
     ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all
     foreshadowing Christ to come,

         # Heb 8:1-10:39 Ro 4:11 Col 2:11,12 1Co 5:7

     which were for that time sufficient and efficacious, through the
     operation of the spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in
     faith in the promised Messiah,

         # 1Co 10:1-4 Heb 11:13 Joh 8:56

     by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation;
     and is called the Old Testament.

         # Ga 3:7-9,14
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  6) Under the gospel, when Christ the substance

         # Col 2:17

     was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is
     dispensed are the preaching of the word, and the administration
     of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper,

         # Mt 28:19,20 1Co 11:23,24,25

      which, though fewer in number, and administered with more
      simplicity and less outward glory, yet in them it is held forth
      in more fulness, evidence, and spiritual efficacy,

         # Heb 7:22-27 Jer 31:33,34

     to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles;

         # Mt 28:19 Eph 2:15-19

     and is called the New Testament.

         # Lu 22:20

     There are not therefore two covenants of grace differing in
     substance, but one and the same under various dispensations.

         # Ga 3:14,16 Ac 15:11 Ro 3:21-23,30 Ps 32:1
         # Ro 4:3,6,16,17,23,24 Heb 13:8
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 Chapter 8 - Of Christ the Mediator

  1) It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the
     Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between
     God and man;

         # Isa 42:1 1Pe 1:19,20 Joh 3:16 1Ti 2:5

     the Prophet,

         # Ac 3:22

     Priest,

         # Heb 5:5,6

     King;

         # Ps 2:6 Lu 1:33

     the Head and Saviour of his Church;

         # Eph 5:23

     the Heir of all things;

         # Heb 1:2

     and Judge of the world;

         # Ac 17:31

     to whom he did from all eternity give a people to be his seed,

         # Joh 17:6 Ps 22:30 Isa 53:10

     and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified,
     sanctified, and glorified.

         # 1Ti 2:6 Isa 55:4,5 1Co 1:30
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  2) The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and
     eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did,
     when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature,

         # Joh 1:1,14 1Jo 5:20 Php 2:6 Ga 4:4

     with all the essential properties and its common infirmities, yet
     without sin;

         # Heb 2:14,16,17 4:15

     being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of
     the Virgin Mary, of her substance.

         # Lu 1:27,31,35 Ga 4:4

     So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead
     and the manhood, were inseparably joined in one person, without
     conversion, composition, or confusion.

         # Lu 1:35 Col 2:9 Ro 9:5 1Pe 3:18 1Ti 3:16

     Which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only
     Mediator between God and man.

         # Ro 1:3,4 1Ti 2:5
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  3) The Lord Jesus, in his human nature thus united to the divine,
     was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure;

         # Ps 45:7 Joh 3:34

     having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge;

         # Col 2:3

     in who it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell:

         # Col 1:19

     to the end, that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of
     grace and truth,

         # Heb 7:26 Joh 1:14

     he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a
     Mediator and Surety.

         # Ac 10:38 Heb 12:24 Heb 7:22

     Which office he took not to himself, but was called to it by
     his Father;

         # Heb 5:4,5

     who put all power and judgment into his hand, and gave
     commandment to execute the same.

         # Joh 5:22,27 Mt 28:18 Ac 2:36
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  4) This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake;

         # Ps 40:7,8 Heb 10:5-10 Joh 10:18 Php 2:8

     which that he may discharge, he was made under the law,

         # Ga 4:4

     and did perfectly fulfil it;

         # Mt 3:15 5:17

     endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul,

         # Mt 26:37,38 Lu 22:44 Mt 27:46

     and most painful sufferings in his body;

         # Mt 26:1-27:66

     was crucified, and died;

         # Php 2:8

     was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no
     corruption.

         # Ac 2:23,24,27 13:37 Ro 6:9

     On the third day he arose from the dead,

         # 1Co 15:3-5

     with the same body in which he suffered;

         # Joh 20:25,27

     with which he ascended into heaven, and there sits at the right
     hand of his Father,

         # Mr 16:19

     making intercession;

         # Ro 8:34 Heb 9:24 7:25

     and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world.

         # Ro 14:9,10 Ac 1:11 10:42 Mt 13:40-42 Jude 1:6 2Pe 2:4
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  5) The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of
     himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up to
     God, has fully satisfied the justice of his Father;

         # Ro 5:19 Heb 9:14,16 10:14 Eph 5:2 Ro 3:25,26

     and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting
     inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the
     Father has given to him.

         # Da 9:24,26 Col 1:19,20 Eph 1:11,14 Joh 17:2 Heb 9:12,15
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  6) Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by
     Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and
     its benefits, were communicated to the elect in all ages
     successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those
     promises, types, and sacrifices, wherein he was revealed and
     signified to be the Seed of the woman, who should bruise the
     serpent's head, and the Lamb slain from the beginning of the
     world, being yesterday and today the same, and for ever.

         # Ga 4:4,5 Ge 3:15 Re 13:8 Heb 13:8
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  7) Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures;
     by each nature doing that which is proper to itself:

         # Heb 9:14 1Pe 3:18

     yet, by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper
     to one nature is sometimes in scripture attributed to the person
     denominated by the other nature.

         # Ac 20:28 Joh 3:13 1Jo 3:16
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  8) To all those for whom Christ has purchased redemption, he does
     certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same;

         # Joh 6:37,39 10:15,16

     making intercession for them;

         # 1Jo 2:1,2 Ro 8:34

     and revealing to them, in and by the word, the mysteries of
     salvation;

         # Joh 15:13,15 Eph 1:7-9 Joh 17:6

     effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey;
     and governing their hearts by his word and Spirit;

         # Joh 14:16 Heb 12:2 2Co 4:13 Ro 8:9,14 15:18,19 Joh 17:17

     overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom,
     in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful
     and unsearchable dispensation.

         # Ps 110:1 1Co 15:25,26 Mal 4:2,3 Col 2:15
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 Chapter 9 - Of Free Will

  1) God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that
     it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature
     determined, to good or evil.

         # Mt 17:12 Jas 1:14 De 30:19
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  2) Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will
     and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God;

         # Ec 7:29 Ge 1:26

     but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.

         # Ge 2:16,17 3:6
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  3) Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all
     ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;

         # Ro 5:6 8:7 Joh 15:5

     so as a natural man, being altogether opposed from that good,

         # Ro 3:10,12

     and dead in sin

         # Eph 2:1,5 Col 2:13

     is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to
     prepare himself to it.

         # Joh 6:44,65 Eph 2:2-5 1Co 2:14 Tit 3:3-5
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  4) When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of
     grace, he frees him from his natural bondage under sin,

         # Col 1:13 Joh 8:34,36

     and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that
     which is spiritually good;

         # Php 2:13 Ro 6:18,22

     yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he does
     not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but does also
     will that which is evil.

         # Ga 5:17 Ro 7:15,18,19,21,23
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  5) The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good
     alone in the state of glory only.

         # Eph 4:13 Heb 12:23 1Jo 3:2 Jude 1:24
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 Chapter 10 - Of Effectual Calling

  1) All those whom God has predestinated to life, and those only, he
     is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call,

         # Ro 8:30 11:7 Eph 1:10,11

     by his word and Spirit,

         # 2Th 2:13,14 2Co 3:3,6

     out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature,
     to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;

         # Ro 8:2 Eph 2:1-5 2Ti 1:9,10

     enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand
     the things of God;

         # Ac 26:18 1Co 2:10,12 Eph 1:17,18

     taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them an heart of
     flesh;

         # Eze 36:26

     renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them
     to that which is good;

         # Eze 11:19 Php 2:13 De 30:6 Eze 36:27

     and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;

         # Eph 1:19 Joh 6:44,45

     yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.

         # So 1:4 Ps 110:3 Joh 6:37 Ro 6:16-18
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  2) This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not
     from any thing at all foreseen in man;

         # 2Ti 1:9 Tit 3:4,5 Eph 2:4,5,8,9 Ro 9:11

     who is altogether passive in it, until, being made alive and
     renewed by the Holy Spirit,

         # 1Co 2:14 Ro 8:7 Eph 2:5

     he is enabled by it to answer this call, and to embrace the
     grace offered and conveyed in it.

         # Joh 6:37 Eze 36:27 Joh 5:25
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  3) Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ
     through the Spirit,

         # Lu 18:15,16 Ac 2:38,39 Joh 3:3,5 1Jo 5:12 Ro 8:9

     who works when, and where, and how he pleases.

         # Joh 3:8

     So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being
     outwardly called by the ministry of the word.

         # 1Jo 5:12 Ac 4:12
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  4) Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry
     of the word,

         # Mt 22:14

     and may have some common operations of the Spirit

         # Mt 7:22 13:20,21 Heb 6:4,5

     yet they never truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:

         # Joh 6:64-66 Joh 8:24

     much less can men not professing the Christian religion be saved
     in any other way whatever, be they ever so diligent to frame
     their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of
     that religion they do profess;

         # Ac 4:12 Joh 14:6 Eph 2:12 Joh 4:22 17:3

    and to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and
    to be detested.

         # 2Jo 1:9-11 1Co 16:22 Ga 1:6-8
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 Chapter 11 - Of Justification

  1) Those whom God effectually calls he also freely justifies;

         # Ro 8:30 3:24

     not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their
     sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous:
     not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for
     Christ's sake alone: not by imputing faith itself, the act of
     believing, or any other evangelical obedience, to them as their
     righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of
     Christ to them,

         # Ro 4:5-8 2Co 5:19,21 Ro 3:22,24,25,27,28 Tit 3:5,7 Eph 1:7
         # Jer 23:6 1Co 1:30,31 Ro 5:17-19

     they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith:
     which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.

         # Ac 10:44 Ga 2:16 Php 3:9 Ac 13:38,39 Eph 2:7,8
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  2) Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his
     righteousness, is alone the instrument of justification;

         # Joh 1:12 Ro 3:28 Ro 5:1

     yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever
     accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith,
     but works by love.

         # Jas 2:17,22,26 Ga 5:6
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  3) Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt
     of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real,
     and full satisfaction to his Father's justice in their behalf.

         # Ro 5:8-10,19 1Ti 2:5,6 Heb 10:10,14 Da 9:24,26 Isa 53:4-6,10-12

     Yet, in as much as he was given by the Father for them,

         # Ro 8:32

     and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead,

         # 2Co 5:21 Mt 3:17 Eph 5:2

     and both freely, not for any thing in them, their justification
     is only of free grace;

         # Ro 3:24 Eph 1:7

     that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be
     glorified in the justification of sinners.

         # Ro 3:26 Eph 2:7
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  4) God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect;

         # Ga 3:8 1Pe 1:2,19,20 Ro 8:30

     and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and
     rise again for their justification:

         # Ga 4:4 1Ti 2:6 Ro 4:25

     nevertheless they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit does
     in due time actually apply Christ to them.

         # Col 1:21,22 Ga 2:16 Tit 3:4-7
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  5) God does continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified:

         # Mt 6:12 1Jo 1:7,9 1Jo 2:1,2

     and although they can never fall from the state of justification,

         # Lu 22:32 Joh 10:28 Heb 10:14

     yet they may by their sins fall under God's fatherly displeasure,
     and not have the light of his countenance restored to them, until
     they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew
     their faith and repentance.

         # Ps 89:31-33 Ps 51:7-12 Ps 32:5 Mt 26:75 1Co 11:30,32 Lu 1:20
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  6) The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in
     all these respects, one and the same with the justification of
     believers under the New Testament.

         # Ga 3:9,13,14 Ro 4:22-24 Heb 13:8
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