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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 1. What was God's Covenant with Adam before the Fall?
A. It was to give Life and Happiness upon condition of perfect personal Obedience. Gal. 3.12. The law is not of faith; but the man that doth them, shall live in them.
Q. 2. Was this Covenant made only with Adam, or with him and his Posterity?
A. It was made with him, and all his natural Posterity, descending in the ordinary way of Generation from him. Rom. 4.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. v. 14 and 18. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come: Therefore as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.