The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. Of Wisdom to secure Man's obedience: For the Covenant being a mutual engagement between God and Man, as it gave him infallible assurance of the reward to strengthen his Faith, so it was the surest bond to preserve his Fidelity. 'Tis true the Precept alone binds by virtue of the authority that imposes it, but the consent of the Creature increases the Obligation; It twists the cords of the Law, and binds more strongly to Obedience. Thus Adam was God's servant, as by the condition of his nature, so by his choice, accepting the Covenant, from which he could not recede without the guilt and infamy of the worst perfidiousness.

2. Of Wisdom to secure Man's obedience: For the Covenant being a mutual engagement between God and Man, as it gave him infallible assurance of the reward to strengthen his Faith, so it was the surest bond to preserve his Fidelity. 'Tis true the Precept alone binds by vertue of the authority that imposes it, but the consent of the Creature increases the Obligation; It twists the cords of the Law, and binds more strongly to Obedience. Thus Adam was God's servant, as by the condition of his nature, so by his choice, accepting the Covenant, from which he could not recede without the guilt and infamy of the worst perfidiousness.

The terms of the Covenant were becoming the Parties concerned, God and Man; It established an inseparable Connection between Duty and Felicity. This appears by the Sanction, In the day thou eatest of the forbidden fruit, thou shalt die. ¹In that particular species of Sin the whole genus is included; according to the Apostles Exposition: Cursed is every ⟨p. 18⟩one that doth not continue in all the works of the Law to do them. ²The threatening of Death was expressed, it being more difficult to be conceived.