Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the condition in which he was created?
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, on the condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, under the penalty of death.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
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Galatians 3:12
“And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.”
Genesis 2:17
“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”