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 A. By Eating the Forbidden Fruit.

q. Who tempted Adam to eat thereof?

A. Eve his Wife.

q. Who tempted Eve?

A. The Devil in the Serpent.

q. What hurt got Adam by his sin?

A. He fell under the curse of God's Law.

q. What hurt doth Adam's sin to us?

A. It makes us sharers of the same curse.

q. Why so?

A. Because we are all Children of that Sinfull Father.

q. What Estate then, are we born in?

A. In an Estate of Sin and Misery.

q. Is not sin either Original or Actual?

A. Yes, it is.

q. What call you Original sin?

A. It is the Sin of our Nature.

q. What is that to say?

A. We are forward to Evil, and backward to Good.

q. What is Actual sin?

A. It is a breaking of God's Law.

q. What way do we break it?

A. By neglecting what he bids us do, and doing what he forbids us.

q. What is the misery which sin brings upon us?

A. Trouble in this world, Death, & Damnation.

q. How are we delivered from that Estate of sin and misery?

A. By a Saviour and Redeemer.

q. What mean you by a Redeemer?

A. One that buys us back again.

q. What doth he buy us back from?

A. The slavery of Sin and Satan, and Eternal Death.

q. Who is our Redeemer?

A. Jesus Christ is our blessed Redeemer.

q. And what price did he give for us?

A. The