Believers and Their Seed, The Historical Realization of the Covenant (Chapter 6c)

Now that first man Adam falls through the temptation of Satan and through his own willful disobedience. And through his fall the first revelation of God's covenant disappears. God had placed His servant in Paradise with a free will. Not, of course, as if that first man was free in the sovereign sense of that with all the life of his will he was not entirely dependent upon God's good pleasure and God's providential purpose and decree. In that sense no creature is ever free. Now that first man...