It was impossible in the nature of things, that he should not foresee the defection, and fall of our race. All the events which mark the history of the universe, were necessarily before the omniscient mind, ere the existence of our world. Jehovah beheld and pitied our miseries, and moved by infinite grace, he determined to provide the means for our deliverance and salvation. This he was pleased to do in thecovenantofredemption,now to be considered.
The fall of Adam in the garden presupposes that God has an eternal plan of redemption for man which points us to the covenant of redemption.
