Colman= ofd* race Opcneri+ Covenant of Works, becaufe here is only a threatning of Death upon his Difobedience to this one pofitive Law. Anfrv. (But as he well obferves) ` Man in Anfw° his Firft Creation was under a Natural Ob- ligation to univerfal compliance to the Will of God, and fuch was the Rectitude of his Nature, it imports an exaa Conformity to the Divine Will, there being an infcription of the Divine Law upon Adam's heart, which partly hall remains, or is written in the hearts Pom.2.14, of thevery Gentiles (tho muchblur'd) which is i 5 Fi 3 that light which is in all, or that which we call 19, 20. The light of .Nature. £i 4.13,14 Tho evident it is that Godafterwards more Ie x'13 Hb . t6. clearly and formally repeated this Law of F 8:77, g, Works to the People of Ifrael, it being writ- E5 9. . ten into Two Tables of Stone, tho not given in that Miniftration of it for Life, as before it was to Adam ; yet as fogiven, it is by St. Paul fre- quently'called theOld Covenant, and the Cove- nant ofWorks, which required perfe& Obedience of all that were under it, totheir Juftification at Gal. 3'19° God's Bar, and fo made Sin appear exceedingfin- f il, and tended to aggravate Man's Guilt and Mifery /upon his Confcience, tho the Deífn of God hereby was to difcover untoMan howuna- ble he was in his Fallen State to fulfil the Righte- kor.5.e0. o!4fefsof God, that fo that Law, together with Fj 3 '9 theTypes andSacrifices, might be Schoolmaf-er C s. 3 to lead us to Chrift. Gal. 3.24, Now in that Miniftration of the Firft Cove- nant given to Ifrael when they carne out of Egypt, there feemed to be a mutual Contra& and
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