1695 Baptist Catechism · 1695

Q15. What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards Man in the Estate wherein he was created?

When God had created Man, he entered into a Covenant of Life with him, upon Condition of perfect Obedience: forbidding him to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, upon pain of Death.
Answer · 1695 Baptist Catechism

Scripture proofs

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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.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.