The Savoy Declaration; Chapter 19, Of the Law of God

God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatned death upon the breach of it, and inued him with power and abilitiy to keep it.