Covenant Theology

Heidelcast 121: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (15)

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• Heidelcast

on December 5, 2016

This is the 15th and final episode of our series, “I Will Be A God to You And to Your Children.” If you are just finding us, the series starts at episode 105. As we wrap up the series it seemed to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (6)

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• R. Scott Clark

on December 3, 2016

XII. There was no need that a particular precept concerning the baptism of infants should be given because it was known to the disciples that infants were circumcised. It therefore sufficed that there was a general command to baptize all nations, under . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (5)

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 30, 2016 | 12 Comments

XI. (7) Because the fathers acknowledged the necessity of infant baptism and approved its propriety by their practice. Justin Martyr mentions it (“Quaestiones et Responsiones ad Orthodoxos,” Q. 56 in Opera quae feruntur omnia [ed. J.C.T. de Otto, 1881], v. 3, Pt. . . . Continue reading →

Circumcision Was Always About The Necessity Of Regeneration

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 29, 2016 | 5 Comments

HB reader Allan writes, The NT apostolic doctrine is that OT circumcision of the flesh is replaced by NT circumcision of the heart. I have not found them saying it is replaced by baptism. Allan, Circumcision was always a sign of what . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (4)

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

IX. (5) Because the children of believers are holy; therefore they ought to be baptized. For since they have the thing signified, they cannot and ought not to be deprived of the sign (Acts 10:47). “The unbelieving wife,” says the apostle, “is . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (2)

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

VI. To no purpose is the reply: (1) “Hence it would follow that the Lord’s Supper should also be administered to infants because the thing signified belongs to them.” Although the same thing is signified in both, still there is a difference . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (1)

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 22, 2016 | 15 Comments

IV. Nor ought it to be objected that Christ puts instruction before baptism and so speaks of adults, who can be instructed, and not of infants (“teach [μαθητεύσατε],” he says). Although Christ placed teaching before baptism, this must be referred to the . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 119: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (14)

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• Heidelcast

on November 20, 2016

This series has really been about how to interpret Scripture.  Christians study the same Bible, but we often read it differently. Sometimes we begin with different assumptions about the nature of things and authority. These different methods and starting points lead to . . . Continue reading →

Hodge: Abraham Was In A Spiritual, Gracious Covenant

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• R. Scott Clark

on October 16, 2016 | 16 Comments

Although the Church existed from the beginning, it was, before the calling of Abraham, for the most part in a state of dispersion. Too little is recorded of it, prior to that event, to give us definite knowledge of its nature and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 118: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (13)

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• Heidelcast

on October 1, 2016

With this episode now we dive into the question of baptism itself. So far we have been setting the stage because, from the historic, confessional Reformed point of view, the debate about infant baptism is really a debate about how to understand . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 115: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (11)

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• Heidelcast

on September 10, 2016 | 3 Comments

In this episode we  see that the benefits of the New Covenant are the benefits of the covenant of grace. There are some who see a strong discontinuity between the promises made to Abraham and the new covenant promised Jeremiah 31. There . . . Continue reading →

Turretin: Leviticus 18:5 Is Proof That God Promised Eternal Blessedness To Adam

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

III. However, the received opinion among the orthodox is that the promise given to Adam was not only of a happy life to be continued in paradise, but of a heavenly and eternal life (to which he was to be carried after . . . Continue reading →

Turretin: Leviticus 18:5 Is Clear Proof Of The Covenant Of Works

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

VII. Second, a law was imposed upon Adam, which necessarily implies a federal agreement and contract. For he who receives it, binds himself officially to obedience under the punishment denounced through the same; he who gives it (for the very reason that . . . Continue reading →

Owen: Leviticus 18:5 Is Nothing But A Revival Of The Covenant Of Works

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016 | 9 Comments

1. This covenant, called “the old covenant,” was never intended to be of itself the absolute rule and law of life and salvation unto the church, but was made with a particular design, and with respect unto particular ends. This the apostle . . . Continue reading →

Witsius: In Leviticus 18:5 Moses Repeated The Covenant Of Works

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

The same doctrine Moses repeated in his ministry. For he also inculcated the same precepts upon which the covenant of works had been built: he both repeated the same solemn saying, He who doeth these things shall live in them, Lev. 18:5 . . . Continue reading →

Sibbes: Leviticus 18:5 Is A Covenant Of Works

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

Quest. Now, whence comes this rootedness and firm stability of God’s children? Ans. Especially from this, that they are now in the covenant of grace, rooted in Christ, who is God-man, in whom they are firmly rooted. In Adam we had a . . . Continue reading →

Ursinus: Leviticus 18:5 Is Law Not Gospel

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

3. In the promises. The law promises life to those who are righteous in themselves, or on the condition of righteousness, and perfect obedience. “He that doeth them, shall live in them.” “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” (Lev. . . . Continue reading →

Calvin On Leviticus 18:5: A General Statement Of The Law That Offers Reward To Those Who Obey Perfectly

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

LEV. 18:5. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes. Although Moses introduces this passage, where he exhorts the Israelites to cultivate chastity in respect to marriage, and not to fall into the incestuous pollutions of the Gentiles, yet, as it is a remarkable . . . Continue reading →

Usher: The Covenant Of Works Is The Sum Of The Law

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

How hath the Moral Law been delivered since the Fall? The Sum thereof was comprised in ten Words, (Exod. 34:28; Deut. 4:13.) commonly called the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; solemnly published and engraved in Table of Stone by God himself, (Deut. 4:14 . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 114: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (10)

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• Heidelcast

on August 25, 2016

In the last episode, in this episode and in the next, we’re looking at what Scripture says about the new covenant. We’ve looked at what Jeremiah 31:31-34 actually says, how Paul interprets it, and now we want to turn our attention to . . . Continue reading →