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Why do we suppose a probational period in Adam's obedience?
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God might have justly always held Adam under the natural relationship of original righteousness - and Adam's holiness being mutable, his blessedness would always have hung in suspense.
temporal probation was accepted, in place of an everlasting exposure to a fall under the perpetual legal demand. R.L. Dabney, 302 |
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In the covenant of works was life the natural reward of obedience?
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the reward for the probationary obedience while a reward for right works, was far more liberal then the works entitled to; and this was an adoption of life, transferring man from the position of a servant to that of a son, and surrounding him forever with the safeguards of the divine wisdom and faithfulness, making his holiness indefectable.
R.L. Dabney, 302. |
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What do we make of the fact that man is not capable of fulfilling the covenant of works?
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For the reason that life cannot (now), in fact, be gained through that covenant (of works), is not that it was not truly promised to man in it, and in good faith; but that man has now become through he fall, morally incapable of fulfilling the conditions.
R.L. Dabney, 304 |
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Was the command to "not eat of the fruit" the only one by the breach of which Adam could fall?
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No, all the moral law know to Adam is represented in this command as the crucial test of his obedience to all. The condition of the covenant was perfect compliance, in heart and act, with all of God's revealed law.
R.L. Dabney, 305 |
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Why is it supposed that an obedience for a limited time would have concluded the Covenant transaction?
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A covenant with an indefinite probation would have been no covenant at all... the creatures state would have been still forever mutable... [and] rightly called desperate...
When Christ tells the young ruler - if thou will enter into life keep the commandment - he implies that the probation would have been temporary. Adam's representative character unavoidably implies that the probation was temporary. R.L. Dabney 305 |
