the condition of obedience, associated with threatening of punishment on the condition of disobedience.”24 According to the great puritan, John Owen: A covenant properly is a compact or agreement on certain terms mutually stipulated by two or more parties. As promises are the foundation and rise of it, as it is between God and man, so it comprises also of precepts, or laws of obedience, which are prescribed to man on his part to be observed.25 One could, however, argue that the covenant with Adam