The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.

5. Concerning the fall of man, and originall sin.

That in as much as Adam was the root of all mankind, the Law and Covenant of works was given to him, as to a publike person, and to an head from whence all good or evill was to be derived to his posterity: Seeing therefore that by the subtilty of the Serpent, which Satan used as his Instrument, first Eve, then Adam being seduced, did wittingly and willingly fall into the disobedience of the Commandment of God; Death came upon all justly, and reigned over all, yea, over Infants also which have not sinned after the like manner of the transgression of A∣dam: Hence also it is, that all since the fall of Adam, are begotten in his own likenesse, after his Image, being conceived and born in iniquity, and so by nature children of wrath, dead in trespasses and sins, altoge∣ther filthy and polluted throughout in soule and body; utterly averse from any spirituall good, strongly bent to all evill, and subject to all calamities due to sin in this world, and for ever.