of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. Acts 17: 25, 26.-And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul-the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1 Cor. 15: 45.-Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Eccl. 7: 29.---In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. Gen. 5: 1.

Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph. 4: 24.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen. 1: 31.— HE is the rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity; just and right is HE.

ARTICLE SEVEN TII.

OF THE FALL OF MAN, AND THE PENALTY 1MPOSED.

Or the fall of man, and the imposed penalty, we believe, That our first parents, Adam and Eve, who were created in the image of God, and in a glorious and happy estate of life and immortality, did not continue long in this their happy and divine estate. For, as they were created mutable, and left to the freedom of their own will, so that they might either love, obey, serve, reverence and adore their Creator, and enjoy him for ever, or else disobey and forsake

him, the LORD God gave them a command, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. But, notwithstanding the prohibition of the command of God, and the happy state in which they were placed, under the immediate smiles and enjoyment of their Maker, they, at the instigation of Satan, that old serpent, who prompted them with pride, in aspiring to be wise as God and equal with him, took of the forbidden fruit and did eat. The woman, who was lastly created, was first deceived by turning her ears away from the LORD God, and paying attention to the insinuations of the devil; did also give unto her husband of the fruit, and he did eat. Thus did they wilfully transgress the explicit command of the Lord, and were alienated from him through the deceitfulness of the serpent, and thereby were made subject, with their whole posterity, to both temporal and eternal death.

Moreover, they were divested of their divine virtues, as perfect righteousness, holiness, truth and love; and became to be depraved, sinful. dying mortals; lying under the frown and dis grace of a righteous, just, but incensed God, who looks down from heaven with anger on all disobedience and unthankfulness of man; insomuch that the sin of disobedience perpetra ted by our first parents, laid them not only un

der condemnation of eternal death, with their posterity, but it also brought on them different temporal and personal afflictions, which are propagated on the whole race of man. Adam's corruptions of heart, through the fall, is inherent on his whole posterity, so that the heart of man is prone to sin from its youth, and evil continually. They are driven from the beau-. tiful paradise, their native seat, and banished on the earth, which, for Adam's sin and transgression was accursed, and bringeth forth of itself thorns and thistles; there to eat the herb of the field, and in the sweat of the face to eat their bread: also to procure covering to cover the shame of their nakedness, which was uncovered in breaking the commandment of God. The woman, who was foremost in the transgression, must submit her will to her husband and be ruled by him; and whose sorrow is greatly multiplied in her conception and bringing forth children. These sorrows and afflictions are inherent on all the posterity of Adam, till they again return unto dust, from which they were taken.

How Adam, by sinning against God, fell, with all his descendants, under the temporal and eternal death, and thereby became sinful and depraved, read:-As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Ad

am's transgression. Therefore, as by the of fence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. Rom. 5: 12, 14, 17, 18, 19.-Behold, I was shapen in inquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Ps. 51: 5.--Who will bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 14: 4.--Among whom also we had our conversation in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Eph. 2: 3.--And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Gen: 6:5.--For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. 15: 21, 22.

Of the imposed penalty inflicted on Adam, for his sin and transgression of the commandment of God, which is extended to him and his posterity, read:-Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat. the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the

ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. 3: 17, 18, 19, 23.

Of the woman's penalty, read:-Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thec. Gen. 3: 16.-Let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience. 1 Cor. 14: 34.—But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 1 Tim. 2: 12.

ARTICLE EIGHTH.

OF FALLEN MAN'S RESTORATION INTO FAVOUR WITH GOD; OR, OF JUSTIFICATION.

Or the restoration of fallen man into the fayour of God, we believe and acknowledge, That when Adam and Eve were fallen under the disgrace and wrath of God, and with their whole posterity lay under the sentence of condemnation and eternal death, so that there was no remedy or deliverer to be found, among all created beings, in heaven or on earth, that could save and redeem them from this their deplorable state, and again restore them into the favour of their offended Creator, against whose majes