The first announcement of a Deliverer for man, from the horrible position in which sin had placed him, was made in Eden, immediately after the fall, by God himself. It was addressed, in the presence of our first parents, to the malicious tempter. "I will put enmity," said he, "between thee, and the woman; and between thy seed, and her seed. It shall bruise thy head; and thou shalt bruise his heel."1May this declaration be accounted, and received, in any proper and correct sense, as acovenant?Why I ask, may it not? It was a stipulation, a promise, a declaration of the divine purpose, an
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Covenant of grace (called the “Edenic covenant” by RBC Howell), first promise of the Gospel (Genesis 3:15) after Adam’s breach of the covenant of works.
