Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

It is hard to conclude peremptorily in so ⟨p. 21⟩obscure a case. If we knew certainly what life was the reward of that Covenant, we might the better understand what death was the penalty. Calvin and many more Interpreters think that if Adam had not fallen, he should after a season have been translated into Heaven without death, as Enoch and Elijah. but I know no Scripture that tells us so much. Whether in Paradise terrestrial or celestial I certainly know not; but that Adam should have lived in happiness and not have dyed, is certain; seeing therefore that Scripture tells us on the one hand, that death is the wages of sin; and one the other hand, that Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come; the 2, 6, and 7. Expositions do as yet seem to me the most safe, as containing that punishment whereby both these Scriptures are fulfilled: Beside that they much correspond to the execution, viz. that man should live here for a season a dying life, separated from God, devoid of his Image, subject to bodily curses and calamities, dead in Law, and at last his soul and body be separated; his body turning to dust from whence it came, and his soul enduring everlasting sorrows, yet nothing so great as those that are threatened in the new Covenant.

It is hard to conclude peremptorily in so ⟨p. 21⟩obscure a case. If wee knew certainly what life was the reward of that Covenant, we might the better understand what death was the penalty. Calvin and many more Interpreters think that if Adam had not fallen, he should after a season have been translated into Heaven without death, as Enoch and Elias. but I know no Scripture that tells us so much. Whether in Paradise terrestriall or celestiall I certainly know not; but that Adam should have lived in happinesse and not have dyed, is certain; seeing therefore that Scripture tells us on the one hand, that death is the wages of sinne; and one the other hand, that Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come; the 2, 6, and 7. Expositions doe as yet seem to me the most safe, as containing that punishment whereby both these Scriptures are fulfilled: Beside that they much correspond to the execution, viz. that man should live here for a season a dying life, separated from God, devoid of his Image, subject to bodily curses and calamities, dead in Law, and at last his soule and body be separated; his body turning to dust from whence it came, and his soule enduring everlasting sorrowes, yet nothing so great as those that are threatned in the new Covenant.