Into What Estate Did the Fall Bring Mankind?

Answ. The fall brought mankind into an
estate of sin and misery.

Q» Why is man’s apostacy from- God called the fail?

A. Because man is debased, bruised, and ruined by it*

Q. From what have all mankind fallen in Adam?

A. From a state of perfect holiness and happiness.

Q. Into what have they fallen? A- Into an estate

of sin and misery, Eph. ii. 1, — 3. Rom. v. 12, — 19.

Qj Why is man’s fallen condition called an estate of sin, and misery? A. Because sin and misery abound with

him, and he is fixed in both, Zech. ix» 11,

O. How are men fip cd in actual sins? A. The

guilt and stain which they leave behind them is abiding.

Q. What fixeth man in this state of sin and misery I

A. The threatening of the broken covenant of work% end the nature of sin, Gal. iii. 10. Eph. ii, 1^

Q How doth the threatening of the broken covenant of works fix men in an estate of sin and misery? A. It engageth the justice of God to lay them under the threefold death threatened in that covenant, Ezek. xviii. 4.

Q^ How doth the nature of sin fix men in that estate?

A, Wherever it reigns, it renders the person altogether incapable of delivering himself, and unwilling to be delivered by another, Rom. viii. .1. Eph. ii. 12.

Q. How is our fallen estate described in scripture?

A. As a state of distance from God, of condemnation, pollution, bondage, darkness, and death, Eph. ii. 21.

Qj Whether is cur sin or our misery worst? A. Sin ‘> for it immediately strikes against God, and is the cause of misery, whereas misery only strikes against sinners.

Q. Is not sin a misery to man, as well as an offence to God A. Yes j to be under the reigning power of sin is the greatest misery, Eph. ii. 1,- — 4, 12,