| Outline 1 - Theme: Of the Fall | |
| Paras | I. The nature of the Fall |
| 1 | A. The general setting of the Fall: "Although God created....in his honour" |
| 1. Integrity | |
| 2. Contingency | |
| 3. Brevity | |
| B. The particular description of the Fall: "Satan using....." | |
| 1. The occasion of the Fall | |
| 2. The manner of the Fall | |
| 3. The essence of the Fall | |
| 4. The substance of the Fall | |
| 5. The permission of the Fall | |
| 2-5 | II. The result of the Fall |
| 2 | A. Representative sin |
| 3 | B. Original sin |
| 1. Its transmission: "They being the root..." | |
| Its dual basis | |
| Its dual essence | |
| Its defined recipients | |
| 2. Its results: "being now conceived...." | |
| 4 | C. Actual sin |
| 1. Its source: "from original corruption" | |
| 2. Its climate: "whereby we are utterly....evil" | |
| 5 | D. Remaining sin |
| Outline 2 - Theme: Of Sin | |
| 1 | I. The origin of sin: the Fall |
| A. Its general setting | |
| B. Its particular description | |
| 2-3 | II. The solidarity in sin |
| 2 | A. Its reality |
| 3 | B. Its transmission |
| 4-5 | III. The effects of sin |
| 4 | A. Its reign in the unregenerate generally |
| 5 | B. It remains in the regenerate particularly |
From: Samuel E. Waldron, A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, (Evangelical Press, 1989), p93-94. Used by permission.