What Is Covenant Theology? Harrison Perkins Explains In 7 Minutes And 43 Seconds

R. Scott Clark

on April 22, 2020

The Hebrew and Greek words for covenant occur hundreds of times in Scripture but for many Christians these concepts are unfamiliar and the idea of reading Scripture in light of what it says about covenant is unfamiliar. In a series of videos Dr Harrison Perkins, of London City Presbyterian Church, explains covenant theology simply and clearly. Continue reading →

Vos: The Covenant Of Grace Was Present In, With, And Through The Old Testament Types And Shadows

With An Extended Comment Replying To Some Recent Criticisms Of Reformed Theology

R. Scott Clark

on April 20, 2020 | 4 Comments

We shall now be prepared to understand how the recognition, that the two worlds exist and have existed side by side from the beginning, enables the author of Hebrews to solve the chief problem of the history of redemption and revelation. For . . . Continue reading →

Another Particular Baptist Wrinkle: The Early Church Baptized Infants But For The Wrong Reasons

R. Scott Clark

on April 14, 2020

Introduction Sean writes with a question that I have received at least once before. Thus, I take it that this is an argument that is mooted in Particular Baptist circles: The argument comes from Particular Baptists and in essence says that while . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On The Unity Of The Covenant Of Grace (Link Updated)

R. Scott Clark

on April 6, 2020 | 4 Comments

Reformed theology teaches and the Reformed Churches confess that the Old and New Testaments are fundamentally unified in important ways. The triune God of the New Testament is the God of the Old Testament. The Apostle John says that God the Son, . . . Continue reading →

Calvin On The Unity Of The Covenant Of Grace

R. Scott Clark

on April 6, 2020

5. Now, if we choose to investigate whether it is right to administer baptism to infants, shall we not say that a man is talking nonsense or indeed raving who would halt with the mere element of water and outward observance, but . . . Continue reading →

Bavinck: The Reformers Taught One Covenant Of Grace In Two Administrations Against The Anabaptists

R. Scott Clark

on April 5, 2020

Vos: The Substance Of The One Covenant Of Grace Was In The Old Covenant

R. Scott Clark

on April 5, 2020

What Augustine so strikingly formulated concerning the relation of the two historic economies of the history of redemption: “Novum Testamentum in Vetere latet, Vetus in Novo patet” [The New Testament hides in the old, the Old reveals itself in the New] permits . . . Continue reading →

Witsius: One Covenant Of Grace, Multiple Administrations

R. Scott Clark

on April 4, 2020

I. It is a matter of the greatest moment, that we learn distinctly to consider the covenant of grace, either as it is in its substance or essence, as they call it, or as it is in diverse ways proposed by God, . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The New Covenant Was Inaugurated After The Fall And Christ Was Its Mediator

R. Scott Clark

on April 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

[5.] We on all accounts stand in need of a surety for us, or on our behalf. Neither without the interposition of such a surety could any covenant between God and us be firm and stable, or “an everlasting covenant, ordered in . . . Continue reading →

Turretin: We Affirm The Unity Of The Covenant Of Grace Against The Socinians, Remonstrants, And Anabaptists

R. Scott Clark

on April 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

FIFTH QUESTION: THE UNITY OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE Was the covenant of grace one and the same as to substance under each dispensation? We affirm against the Socinians, Anabaptists and Remonstrants I. This most important controversy is waged by us with . . . Continue reading →

Brakel: The Substance Of The Covenant Of Grace Is Identical In The Old And New Testaments

R. Scott Clark

on April 1, 2020 | 4 Comments

The Covenant of Grace Identical in both Old and New Testaments Question #1: When was this covenant of grace initiated? Answer: Due to a misunderstanding concerning the nature of the covenant of grace, the Socinians and Arminians, who are in this respect . . . Continue reading →

The Reformed Churches Do Not Confess Baptismal Union With Christ

R. Scott Clark

on March 31, 2020 | 36 Comments

A Preface On Paradigms As Baptists and Reformed folk engage each other’s theological traditions two things need to happen to make that engagement productive: 1) They need to realize that each tradition is theologically distinct. Some Baptists have historical and institutional relations . . . Continue reading →

One Important Difference Between The Reformed And Some Particular Baptists: God The Son Was In, With, And Under The Types And Shadows

R. Scott Clark

on March 28, 2020 | 30 Comments

In reading Particular Baptist sources from the classical period of Particular Baptist theology, piety, and practice and from modern proponents of that tradition I have become more deeply impressed with how superficial my understanding was and how great the differences are in . . . Continue reading →

Update: John Owen Is Still Not A Baptist

R. Scott Clark

on March 27, 2020 | 5 Comments

Obs. III. Divine institutions cease not without an express divine abrogation.—Where they are once granted and erected by the authority of God, they can never cease without an express act of the same authority taking them away. So was it with the . . . Continue reading →

Brakel: If You Deny The Covenant Of Works, You Will Not Understand The Covenant Of Grace

R. Scott Clark

on March 24, 2020 | 7 Comments

Should We Talk About Breaking The Covenant Of Grace?

R. Scott Clark

on January 28, 2020 | 12 Comments

Introduction Two correspondents have written in recent days to ask about whether those who confess the Reformed confessions (e.g., the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Westminster Standards) and the Reformed confession, which is a broader category . . . Continue reading →

Walter Marshall: Abraham Is Not Moses

Inwoo Lee

on January 27, 2020 | 3 Comments

The end which God aimed at in giving the law of Moses, was not, that any should ever attain to holiness or salvation by condition of perfect or sincere obedience to it; though, if there had been any such way of salvation . . . Continue reading →

Owen: Christians Are In The Same Church As Abraham (3)

R. Scott Clark

on January 3, 2020 | 16 Comments

And this doth and must determine the difference between the Jews and Christians about the promises of the Old Testament. They are all made unto the church. No individual person hath any interest in them but by virtue of his membership therewith. . . . Continue reading →

Owen: Christians Are In The Same Church As Abraham (2)

R. Scott Clark

on December 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

It remains, then, that the church founded in the covenant, and unto which all the promises did and do belong, abode at the coming of Christ, and doth abide ever since, in and among those who are the children of Abraham by . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Minute: What Are The Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace?

Heidelcast

on December 16, 2019

Resources Heidelcast 98: Salvation, Good Works, And Conditions Resources On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace (Updated) Resources On Norman Shepherd Resources On The Federal Vision Theology