Q. 22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Question. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
Answer. The covenant being made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.
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