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Chapter VI. Covenant of Works.
God having created man after his own image in knowledge, , and , entered into a of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil upon the pain of death.
According to this statement, (1.) God entered into a with Adam. (2.) The promise annexed to that was life. (3.) The condition was perfect obedience. (4.) Its penalty was death.