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Matthew Henry’s Westminster Shorter Catechism Commentary on Question 12

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Did God make man happy as well as holy? Yes: for he put him into the garden of Eden,
Gen. 2:15
. Did he provide comfortably for him? Yes: for he said, I will make him a help meet for him,
Gen. 2:18
. Did he admit him into communion with himself? Yes: for he then blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it,
Gen. 2:3
. Was God well pleased in him? Yes: for his delights were with the sons of men,
Prov. 8:31
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Did God give him a law? Yes: The Lord God commanded the man,
Gen. 2:16
. Did he give him a command of trial? Yes: Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it,
Gen. 2:17
. Did he assure him of happiness, if he obeyed? Yes: for of every tree in the garden (even the tree of life,) thou mayest freely eat,
Gen. 2:16
. Did he threaten death upon his disobedience? Yes: for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die,
Gen. 2:17
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Was this God’s covenant with Adam? Yes: for we read of those who, like Adam, transgressed the covenant,
Hos. 6:7
(margin). Was, Do this and live, one branch of that covenant? Yes: for the man that doeth them, shall live, in them,
Gal. 3:12
. Was, Fail and die the other branch of the covenant? Yes: the soul that sinneth, it shall die,
Ezek. 18:4
. Was this the covenant of innocency? Yes: for the law was ot of faith,
Gal. 3:12
. Was there a mediator of this covenant? No: for it is the better covenant that is established in the hands of a Mediator,
Heb. 8:6
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