~ Of Man'.s ~riginal Happincfl. ti· into, w'hen he !hould have paffed the time of his trial upo11 earth, and the Lord thould fee.i'neet to tranfpprt h!m into the .upper paradife . This promife of fife was i,ncluded in the threatning of death me~tiOJ1t;:d, Gen. ii. 17. For .while God fays, In Jhe day th~u eatefl thereof, {hou)halt furely ,die; it is in effeCt, If thou do not eat of it, thoufha{t furely_ liv~. And tl;liswas facramentally confirmed by another treem the ' garden, called therefore The tree of lift; which he M'aS . debarred from, when he had finned: Gen. iii. 22, 23.··Lefl h.eputforth his hand, and take alfo ofthe tree; of lift, and~at. And Jive for .ever. Therefore t~e Lord Gotlfen! him forth from thegarden of Eden. Yet it is,not to be th9ught, that man's life and death did hang _only on this matter of the forbidden fruit, but- on ~he whole law; for fo fays the A– po!He, Gal. iii. IQ. It is <written, Curfed is every on.e that .continuetb not in all things, which are <writt&n in the b~ok .Jthe law to do th~m. That of the forbidden fruit, was a– revealed part of Adam's neligion; and fo behaved exprefly to be laid pefore him: but as to the natural. Jaw; he na.. turally knew death to be the reward of difobedience; for the yery Heathens were not ignorant of this, know.ing the , judgment ·of God, that they which commit.fuch thing.; are rwortby of death, Rom.. i. 32. And moreover, the promife included in the threatning, fecured Adam's life, 'accord- , • ing to the.· covenant, as long as l)e obeyed.the natural law, with the .auldition of that pofitive command ; fo that he needed nothing to be expreffed to him in the covenant, but what concerned the eating of the forbidden fruit. That e– !ernallife in heaven was promifed in this covenant, is plain ,from this, that the threatning was of eternal death in hell, to which when ·Il)an had made pimfelf liable, Chrifi: pro·– rnif~d, by his death to purchafe eternal life : and Chriit himfclf expounds the promife of the covenant of works, of eternal life, wh}le he prpmifet,h the condition of that cove~ nant, to a proud young m~n, ',Vho tho' he had not Adm?t's flock, yet would needs eJ?ter into life in the way of work– ing, as A dam was to have done und.er this c~venant, Mcttth. ~ix.. I 71 lf t h~u wilt enter into {ift, (viz. eternal life, ' by doing, ve r. 1 6, ) keep the commandmmf.t. . . li:h,e penalty was death,, Gen . ii. 17. In the day that thgit .c,at1fi..~~#-~reifi th_r;ufoa/tf~nft Ji~ Th.e death threatned '·' · · wae
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