The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.

Object. M^r Norton doth holdly and constantly affirm,

"That doe this and live, doth relate to the command of the Covenant of works made with Adam.

Answ. 1. The Covenant made with Adam, had no relation at all to the moral Law of Nature, in the which Adam was created; because the Law of the Covenant required no more but one single transient act of eat∣ing of the tree of the two-fold li••e for the fulfilling of it. And, 2. It forbad but one transient act of eating of the forbidden fruit for the final breaking of it. And therefore, 3. As soon as that act of eating the for∣bidden fruit was but once done, that Covenant was for ever after extin∣guished: and nothing thereof doth now remain but the vindicative punish∣ment of a double spiritual death to all Adams natural posterity successively

to the worlds end, Gen 2. 17. And then God declared his Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation to fallen Adam, and to all his posterity succes∣sively, that in case they did believe in the seed of the woman, that he should break the Devils head, but for their Redemption, they should be justified from sinne, and so eternally saved, and that such as did not be∣lieve should be damned. Therefore this command, Do this and live, be∣ing given at Mount Sinai two thousand five hundred and thirteen yeares after the Covenant of Nature was extinguished, can relate to no other Co∣venant, but the Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation: There is no other Covenant for salvation to the world, but that Covenant only.

2. The true sense and meaning of these words, Do this and live in Lev. 18. 5. must be fetched from the context in vers. 4. Ye shall doe my judge∣ments, and do mine ordinances to walk therein, I am the Lord your God in the Covenant of Grace, (and not of Nature, for that Covenant is not in be∣ing) ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgements (by saith in Christ according to their typified sence) which if a man do, he shall live in them. And I have shewed from Ezek. 11. 19, 20. in Sect. 4. that none else can walk in Gods statutes, and keep his ordinances, and do them, but such as he doth inable to do them by his Spirit.