{"number":12,"title":"What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards Man in the Estate wherein he was Created?","part":null,"questions":[12],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards Man in the Estate wherein he was Created?","answer":"When God had created Man, he entred into a Covenant of Life with him, upon condition of perfect Obedience, forbidding him to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, upon pain of Death.","segments":[{"text":"When God had created Man, he entred into a Covenant of Life with him, upon condition of perfect Obedience, forbidding him to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, upon pain of Death.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Did God make Man happy as well as holy?","answer":"Yes. For he put him into the Garden of Eden,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he put him into the Garden of Eden,","proofs":["Genesis 2:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:15","osis":["Gen.2.15"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Did he provide comfortably for him?","answer":"Yes. For he said, I will make him a help meet for him,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, I will make him a help meet for him,","proofs":["Genesis 2:18"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:18","osis":["Gen.2.18"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Did he admit him into Communion with himself?","answer":"Yes. For he then blessed the Seventh Day, and sanctified it,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he then blessed the Seventh Day, and sanctified it,","proofs":["Genesis 2:3"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:3","osis":["Gen.2.3"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was God well-pleas’d in him?","answer":"Yes. For his delights were with the Sons of Men,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For his delights were with the Sons of Men,","proofs":["Proverbs 8:31"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 8:31","osis":["Prov.8.31"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Did God give him a Law?","answer":"Yes. The Lord God Commanded the Man,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Lord God Commanded the Man,","proofs":["Genesis 2:16"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:16","osis":["Gen.2.16"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Did he give him a command of Trial?","answer":"Yes. Of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it,","proofs":["Genesis 2:17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:17","osis":["Gen.2.17"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Did he assure him of Happiness if he obey’d?","answer":"Yes. For of every Tree in the Garden (even the Tree of Life) thou mayest freely eat,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For of every Tree in the Garden (even the Tree of Life) thou mayest freely eat,","proofs":["Genesis 2:16"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:16","osis":["Gen.2.16"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Did he threaten Death upon his Disobedience?","answer":"Yes. For in the Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in the Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,","proofs":["Genesis 2:17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 2:17","osis":["Gen.2.17"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Was this God’s Covenant with Adam?","answer":"Yes. For we read of those that like Adam transgressed the Covenant,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we read of those that like Adam transgressed the Covenant,","proofs":["Hosea 6:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hosea 6:7","osis":["Hos.6.7"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Was do this and live one Branch of that Covenant?","answer":"Yes. For the Man that doth them shall live in them,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Man that doth them shall live in them,","proofs":["Galatians 3:12"],"refs":[{"printed":"Galatians 3:12","osis":["Gal.3.12"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was fail and die t’other Branch of the Covenant?","answer":"Yes. The Soul that sinneth it shall die,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Soul that sinneth it shall die,","proofs":["Ezekiel 18:4"],"refs":[{"printed":"Ezekiel 18:4","osis":["Ezek.18.4"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was this the Covenant of Innocency?","answer":"Yes. For the Law was not of Faith,","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Law was not of Faith,","proofs":["Galatians 3:12"],"refs":[{"printed":"Galatians 3:12","osis":["Gal.3.12"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was there a Mediator of this Covenant?","answer":"No. For it is the better Covenant that is established in the Hands of a Mediator,","segments":[{"text":"No. For it is the better Covenant that is established in the Hands of a Mediator,","proofs":["Hebrews 8:6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 8:6","osis":["Heb.8.6"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}]}],"text":null}