Puritan Catechism · 1855

Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state 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 · Puritan Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Galatians 3:12

    And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

  2. [2]
    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.