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Lord's Day 3

Question 7

Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature?

From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise;1 hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin.2

Question 8

Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all wickedness?

Indeed we are;3 except we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.4


1 Gen. 3; Rom. 5:12, 18, 19.

2 Ps. 51:5; Gen. 5:3.

3 Gen. 8:21; John 3:6; Gen. 6:5; Job 14:4; Job 15:14, 16, 35; Isa. 53:6.

4 John 3:3, 5; 1 Cor. 12:3; 2 Cor. 3:5.

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