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Now, oh, how sad is it for a man to be under a Covenant of works. For,

First, The Covenant of works, in the nature of it, requires §1perfect, personal and perpetual obedience, under pain of the curse and death; according to that of the Apostle, As many as are of the works of the Law, are under the ¹curse (presupposing man's fall, and consequently, his inability to keep it) For it is written, cursed is every one that ²continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them: The Covenant of works, therefore, affords no mercy to the transgressors of it; but inflicts death and curse, for the least delinquency; For whosoever ³shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all: The whole Law is but one copulative; He that breaketh one commandment, habitually breaketh all. A dispensatory conscience keeps not any commandment; when the disposition of the heart is qualified to break every command, then a man breaks every command in the account of▪ God; every one sin, contains virtually, all sin in it: He that dares contemn the Law-giver in any one command, he dares contemn the Law-giver in every command: He that allows himself in any one known sin, in any course, way or trade of sin; he s••s himself under that ⟨p. 30⟩curse, which is threatened against the transgressors of the Law.

First, The Covenant of works, in the nature of it, requires §1