mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,” or, in the original, dying thou shalt die. You see at once that there is no reference to the organization of a church in this covenant. The fact is, Adam was pure and holy, and the object of the covenant seemed to be, to secure continued obedience upon his part. Adam was the representative, under this covenant, of human nature as a unit, a