The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

3. Death is to be considered as the Sentence of the Law. The reasonable Creature was made under a Law the Rule of his Actions. The moral Law directed him how to continue in his holy and blessed State: To which was annexed the Precept of not eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, only as a mark of his Subjection, and ⟨p. 13⟩for the trial of his Obedience. This Precept had an infallible Sanction by the most high Law-giver: In the day thou eatest thereof, ¹thou shalt die the Death. Man did not keep this Command of so easy Observation, and justly incurred its doom. As Sin is the violation of the Law, so Death is the violation of the Sinner in his Nature and Felicity retorted from the Law.

3. Death is to be considered as the Sentence of the Law. The reasonable Creature was made under a Law the Rule of his Actions. The moral Law directed him how to continue in his holy and blessed State: To which was annex'd the Precept of not eating of the Tree of Knowledg of Good and Evil, only as a mark of his Subjection, and ⟨p. 13⟩for the trial of his Obedience. This Precept had an infallible Sanction by the most high Law-giver: In the day thou eatest thereof, ¹thou shalt die the Death. Man did not keep this Command of so easy Observation, and justly incurr'd its doom. As Sin is the violation of the Law, so Death is the violation of the Sinner in his Nature and Felicity retorted from the Law.

1. 1Gen. 2.17.

The Deaths of Men are very different in their kinds; and are comprised in the words of David concerning Saul; The Lord shall smite him, or his Day shall come to die,