§ 2. The four Moments or Characters of Evil. The Fall, Natural Depravity, Total Depravity, Inability.
Orthodoxy [pg 131] answers the question, “What is man?” by saying, “Man is a sinner;” and this answer has these four moments:—
1. Man was created at first righteous and good.
2. Man fell, in and with Adam, and became a sinner.
3. All now born are born totally corrupt and evil;—
4. And are utterly disabled to all good, so as not to have the power of repenting, or even of wishing to repent.
These four ideas are,—
First, that of The Fall, or Inherited Evil.
Second, of Natural Depravity.