Orthodox Creed · Chapter 13

Of the First Covenant

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1. The First Covenant was made, between God and Man, before Man had sinned in eating of the forbidden Fruit; in which Covenant God required of Man perfect Obedience to all the Commands thereof;^a and in case he did so obey, he promised to be his God.^b And on the other part, Man promised to perform entire and perfect Obedience to all God’s holy Commands in that Covenant, by that strength wherewith God endowed him in his first Creation: by the improvement of which, he might have attained unto Eternal Life without Faith, in the Blood of the Mediator of the New Covenant of Grace; but he sinning against this Covenant, (which consisted in two Roots, (viz.) To love God above all things; And his Neighbour as himself;^c it being the substance of that Law that was afterwards written in two Tables of Stone, and delivered unto Moses upon Mount Sinai) and fell under the just Sentence of Eternal Death,^d which was the punishment that God had appointed for the breach of it. And under this Righteous Judgment of God, Adam and his Natural Posterity, had for ever remained, as the fallen Angels do, had not God of his infinite Grace and Love, provided his Son, to take unto himself our Nature, and so became a fit Mediator between God the Father who was offended, and Man who had offended him^e in breaking his holy Law and Covenant.

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