...answer is given after Calvin's own heart. " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.*' This indeed is food for an infant giant, — very different from the milk...

...any thing more, than the answer to the 22d Ques. Lar. Cat. does, when it says, that the covenant was made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, it is impossible to tell. Some do, who talk of Adam's posterity having been seminally in him, and so...

...Adam, but embraced, in him, those who should spring from him, it follows, that " all his posterity, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression." So saith the scripture : In Adam all die.— By one man sin entered into...

...mankind fall in Adam's first trantgreision ? A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. 1. Are we concerned in our first parents' disobedience? Yes: for by the offence...

...contains the following propositions: — " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression. " The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery. "The sinfulness...

...mankind fall in Adam's first transgression? ANS. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind, descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. Rom. v. 12, " By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin," &c....

...no perceptible variation, from the time of Luther and Calvin. In their Larger Catechism, they say, ' The covenant being made with Adam, as a public person,...him, and fell with him in that first transgression. ' The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery. 'The sinfuhiess of that estate whereinto...

...him, upon condition of perfect obedience — The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression — The sinfulness of that estate, whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt...

...all mankind fall in first transgression ? A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. Are we concerned in our first parents' disobedience ? Yes : for by the offence...

...judgment came upon all men to condemnation."! * The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression." — Quest. 16, Shorter Catechism. t Much philosophy and curious speculation...