Titus 3;3.—For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.—Rom. 1;31.—Gal. 5;19, 20.
3. LORD’S DAY.
6. Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?
By no means, but God created man good, and after his own image (Gen. 1;27), in righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4;24) that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him (Col. 3;10) and live with him in eternal happiness, to glorify and praise him. (Isa. 43;7).
Gen. 1;27—So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him.—Gen. 1;31.
Eph. 4;24.—And that ye put on the new man, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.—Ecc. 7;29.
Col. 3;10.—And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.—1 Chron. 28;9.—Rev. 22;14
Isa. 43;7.—For I have created him for my glory. Prov. 16;4.—1 Cor. 10;31.—Ps. 16;11.
*7. Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature?
From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise (Rom. 5;12); hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin (John 3;6).
Rom. 5;12.—By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.—1 Cor. 15;22.—Matt. 7;18.—Gen. 3;1-6.
