This peculiar relation of the covenant has also another excellency. It serves to reveal to us one at least, of the most precious truths in the divine word. It apprises us that the declaration of a Deliverer was made to man, before the sentence was pronounced which overwhelmed him with the consequences of his sins. He stood before his Creator a transgressor, criminal, ashamed, but still stout and unsubdued. He was not yet formally condemned. The sorrow, and suffering, anddeath, he had incurred, were withheld. They had not descended upon him. How full of kindness were these dealings of God! The
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Covenant promise of the Gospel given to Adam as our federal head as hope before he is condemned for breaching the covenant of works so as to not leave him destitute and condemned by God without a remedy or hope of salvation.
