In Adam’s sin there was the breach of the whole law in every commandment, either directly or by consequence, for he showed evident want of love to God in believing Satan more than God. Therein he chose Satan for his god; he worshipped Satan and took God’s name in vain; he showed also evident want of brotherly love, for hereby he became a murderer not only of himself, but of all his posterity. And thus do sins concur in every wicked action, in which regard it may be said with James that “he which faileth in one commandment is guilty of all” [2:10], which must admonish us to make conscience of every sin, for we cannot live in any one but we must needs run into many other.

William Perkins | An Exposition of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount in The Works of William Perkins (Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 399.

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  Inwoo Lee (BA, UCSD) earned his MA (Historical Theology) in 2020 from Westminster Seminary California and is author of “Righteous Before God: William Perkins’ Doctrine of Justification in Elizabethan England” (MA Thesis, Westminster Seminary California, 2020). He lives in the Great Seoul area, in South Korea with his wife Holly.

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