 | William Reid - 1874 - 422 pages
...of original sin. We believe the doctrine of original sin as expressed in our Shorter Catechism : " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself,...him, and fell with him in his first transgression " (Quest. 1 6th). The first man was a public person, acting as the federal head or representative of... | |
 | Henry C. Pedder - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 200 pages
...authorities speak for themselves. According to the doctrine as stated by the Westminister divines : " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself,...him, and fell with him in his first transgression. " The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1874 - 874 pages
...generation.' And again, 'The covenant being made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from...ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in the first transgression. . . . The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consisteth in the guilt... | |
 | John Hall - Christian education - 1875 - 428 pages
...condemnation. * See Shedd on the sin of omission, in " Sermons to the Natural Man." Our Catechism says : " The covenant being made with Adam not only for himself,...him, and fell with him, in his first transgression." In the explanation of this relation there is considerable difference of opinion among divines in our... | |
 | Gardiner Spring Plumley - Presbyterian Church - 1875 - 834 pages
...dominion over the creatures " ? and he answers, Yes, we are satisfied. If he says he believes that ' the covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself,...him, and fell with him, in his first transgression,' we are satisfied. If he says that he believes that ' the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell... | |
 | 1875 - 797 pages
...first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit. 16. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself,...ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, hi his first transgression. 17. The fell brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery. 18. The... | |
 | Theology - 1875 - 842 pages
...fact which is silly and senseless as compared with that which we have known from our infancy : — " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind, descended from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression."... | |
 | John Miller - 1877 - 110 pages
...Catechism" is as follows, — " Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression ?" The answer is, " The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself,...him, and fell with him, in his first transgression." It would be hazardous to pause upon the meaning of the doctrine, for it would delay and confuse us.... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - Philosophy and religion - 1877 - 650 pages
...representative as well as natural head of the human race, declared that the covenant being made with him, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind,...him and fell with him in his first transgression. And this became substantially the doctrine of the chief evangelical Churches of the last century. It... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Creeds - 1877 - 946 pages
...fall in Adam's Jirst transgression f Ans. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, bnt for his posterity, all mankind descending from him...him, and fell with him, in his first transgression. Ques. 17. Into icliat estate did the fall briny mankind f Ans. The fall brought mankind into an estate... | |
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The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. 
