1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.

2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.

3. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.

5. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.

6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.

For further study see:

1. WSC Q13: Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
2. WSC  Q14: What is sin?
3. WSC Q15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
4. WSC Q16: Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
5. WSC Q17: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
6. WSC Q18: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
7. WSC Q19: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
8. WLC 21: Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?
9. WLC 22: Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
10. WLC 23: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
11. WLC 24: What is sin?
12. WLC 25: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
13. WLC 26: How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
14. WLC 27: What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?
15. WLC 28: What are the punishments of sin in this world?
16. WLC 29: What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?