Paragraph 19.1

Of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil;⁠1 by which He bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience;⁠2 promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it.⁠3

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

19.1

God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it; and endued him with power and ability to keep it.⁠1