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§. 26. What the Reward was to be, besides what I said before from Nature, it is not easy to gather out of Scripture, nor to find there any plainer a Promise of Life; but in both I think it is certainly implied.

§. 26. What the Reward was to be, besides what I said before from Nature, it is not easie to gather out of Scripture, nor to find there any plainer a Promise of Life; but in both I think it is certainly implied.

§. 27. It is ordinary to say, That the Condition of Adam's Confirmation was, That he should have eaten first of the Tree of Life: But to find that among the Commands, much less the Condition with a Promise of Confirmation, requireth more discerning than I have; notwithstanding the words [Lest he eat and live, &c.] from which they gather it.

§. 28. How far this Law is yet in force, is also difficultly disputed. In brief, 1. The general Command of perfect Love and Obedience for the future, and the Commands of the unalterable Duties of Nature, are still so far in force as to oblige us. 2. But whether sub poena mortis is the doubt? Punishment is due either absolutely and statedly, and so it maketh it due only to the Impenitent and Unbelievers. Or only in primo instanti, inceptively, with an annexed Remedy: And so every Sin maketh Punishment so far due to the Faithful, as that they have need of the Grace of Christ, and the new Covenant to pardon it. 3. But the premiant part of the Law of Innocency, from whence it is named a Covenant, is now truly null. Which maketh our Divines say, That the Law of Nature (which they call moral) bindeth as a Rule of Duty, but the Covenant ceaseth.