Q. 22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?

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The covenant being made with Adam, as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity; all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.

Acts 17:26; Gen. 2:16-17; Rom. 5:12-20; 1 Cor. 15:21-22.

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Index: COVENANT OF WORKS What and with whom made
Index: FALL OF MAN All mankind concerned in it
Index: MAN Fall and its effects
Index: SIN The guilt of this sin is imputed and the corruption of their whole nature is conveyed to their posterity

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Acts 17:26
KJV
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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- CF 6.3
Genesis 2:16-17
KJV
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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Romans 5:12-20
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Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
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- CF 7.2
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
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1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
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