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Of Man's Second Condition
When Adam the first man had sinned by doing naughtily, against what God bad him, yielding to Eve his wife, and to the Devil, more than to God: What was Adams Condition then? And what is now the Condition of every Child, of every Man, and of every Woman by Nature?
Answer
By the sin and naughtiness of Adam our Father, both Adam and we became not like to God, but like the Devil (Genesis 3:12; John 8:44).