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For God, the author of natures, not of vices, created man upright;
but man, being of his own will corrupted, and justly condemned, begot
corrupted and condemned children. For we all were in that one man,
since we all were that one man, who fell into sin by the woman who was
made from him before the sin. For not yet was the particular form
created and distributed to us, in which we as individuals were to
live, but already the seminal nature was there from which we were to be
propagated; and this being vitiated by sin, and bound by the chain of
death, and justly condemned, man could not be born of man in any other
state. And thus, from the bad use of free will, there originated the
whole train of evil,which, with its concatenation of miseries,
convoys the human race from its depraved origin, as from a corrupt
root, on to the destruction of the second death, which has no end,
those only being excepted who are freed by the grace of God.
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