Edward Fisher says in his Marrow of Modern Divinity that Adam broke the Ten Commandments “at one clap.” Here’s what he says:
- He chose himself another god when he followed the devil.
- He idolized and deified his own belly (he made his belly his god).
- He took the name of God in vain, when he believed him not.
- He kept not the rest and estate wherein God had set him.
- He dishonored his Father who was in heaven; and therefore his days were not prolonged in that land which the Lord God had given him.
- He massacred himself and all his posterity.
- From Eve he was a virgin, but in eyes and mind he committed spiritual fornication.
- He stole, like Achan, that which God had set aside not to be meddled with; and this his stealth is that which troubles all Israel – the whole world.
- He bare witness against God, when he believed the witness of the devil before him.
- He coveted an evil covetousness, like Amnon, which cost him his life, and all his progeny.
Edward Fischer (The Marrow of Modern Divinity, p. 58)