The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

PROPOSITION, III.

This covenant of Works could not be known by our first Parents any other way than by divine revelation: because both the promises and threatenings of this covenant depended on the free will of God: so that whatever a bilities of understanding Adam had in his first estate they were insufficient to make a discovery of them: the precepts of the Law were written In the heart of man when he was first made, and so they are still, though not so legibly, Rom. 2.15. They show the works of the Law written in their hearts: and ⟨p. 32⟩this I don't understand to be any distinct work of God from that of creating the soul: for the precepts of the Law excepting that one of the Sabbath have a self-evidencing power: so that supposing man to have an understanding, he can't but have some knowledge of them, and supposing them to have an understanding not corrupted, he can't but have a clear knowledge of them: but the promises and threatenings of the Law are not understood by any thing written in mens heart: Conscience indeed by its own natural light does give evidence that sin is offensive to God, and so affright men with expectation of wrath: but it can't witness the certainty of Judgments, much less of eternal condemnation, except it have received some further light either from the Works or Word of God.

This covenant of Works could not be known by our first Parents any other way than by divine revelation: because both the promises and threatnings of this covenant depended on the free will of God: so that whatever a bilities of understanding Adam had in his first estate they were insufficient to make a discovery of them: the precepts of the Law were written In the heart of man when he was first made, and so they are still, though not so legibly,