arise from this privative original,” Edwards observed. Thus ’tis easy to give an account how total corruption of heart should follow on man’s eating the forbidden fruit, though that was but one act of sin, without God’s putting any evil into his heart, or implanting any bad principle, or infusing any corrupt taint, and so becoming the author of depravity.20 Adam’s corruption, brought about by his sin and God’s removal of divine regulation, was transmitted and imputed to his posterity. That is ultimately