Westminster Shorter Q12
Source: Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) (Q12) · catechism
What special act of providence did God exercise toward 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 the pain of death.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Westminster Assembly minutes (Mitchell & Struthers, 1874)
- critical_edition: Free Presbyterian Publications — Westminster Standards
- republication: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- republication: OPC — Westminster Shorter Catechism
- republication: PCA — Westminster Shorter Catechism with proof texts
- proof_text: Scripture proof texts assembled by Westminster Assembly
Connections
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