Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658), Savoy Assembly · PDF

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Chapter 19: Of the Law of God

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, 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 threatned death upon the breach of it, and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

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, 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 endowed him with power and ability to keep it.

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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 19.1 → Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658), Paragraph 19.1

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, 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 threatned death upon the breach of it, and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 19.1

God gave to Adam a Law, as a Covenant of Works, by which he bound him, and all his posterity to personall, entire, exact, and perpetuall obedience; promised life upon the fullfilling, and threatned death upon the breach of it: and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658), Paragraph 19.1

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, 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 threatned death upon the breach of it, and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing) (1677), Paragraph 19.1

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; by which he bound him, and all his posterity to personal entire exact and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatned death upon the breach of it, and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), Paragraph 19.1

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; by which he bound him, and all his Posterity to personal, entire, exact and perpetual Obedience; promised Life upon the fulfilling, and threatned Death upon the breach of it, and indued him with Power and Ability to keep it.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 19.1 → Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658), Paragraph 19.1

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, 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 endowed him with power and ability to keep it.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 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 endowed him with power and ability to keep it.

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658), Paragraph 19.1

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, 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 endowed him with power and ability to keep it.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing) (1677), Paragraph 19.1

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; by which he bound him, and all his posterity to personal entire exact and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatned death upon the breach of it, and indued him with power and ability to keep it.

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), Paragraph 19.1

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; by which he bound him, and all his Posterity to personal, entire, exact and perpetual Obedience; promised Life upon the fulfilling, and threatned Death upon the breach of it, and indued him with Power and Ability to keep it.

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