God gave to man the charge of this image, as the most excellent deposit of heaven, and, if kept pure and inviolate, the earnest of a greater good; for that end he endued him with sufficient powers from his very formation, so as . . . Continue reading →
Covenant Theology
Bavinck Contra The Donum Super Additum
It was called a “covenant of nature,” not because it was deemed to flow automatically and naturally from the nature of God or the nature of man, but because the foundation on which the covenant rested, that is, the moral law, was known . . . Continue reading →
Talking Covenant Theology With Pastor Rudy Rubio On The Hood Grace Podcast
Happy to join Pastor Rudy Rubio for this episode of the Hood Grace Podcast to talk covenant theology and more. Continue reading →
Boston: Believers Are Not Under The Moral Law As A Covenant Of Works But As A Rule Of Life
Objection: But does not the apostle say, Rom. 6:14. ‘Ye are not under the law but under grace?’ and Gal. 5:22, 23. ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, &c.—against such there is no law?’
Why Does It Take So Long To Explain Infant Baptism?
Yesterday someone commented on one of the BigSocialMedia platforms that the Heidelcast series, “I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children” helped them to understand and accept infant baptism (paedobaptism) as the biblical position. Someone else objected, in effect, . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: Circumcision Was Spiritual And Substantially Identical To Baptism
But since before baptism was instituted God’s people had circumcision instead, let us examine how these two signs differ from each other, and in what respects they are alike. From this will appear the anagogic relationship of the one to the other. . . . Continue reading →
Santa Is Law, Not Gospel
Santa rewards those who meet the terms of a covenant of works: Continue reading
William Perkins On Infant Baptism
Infants of believing parents are likewise to be baptized. The grounds of their baptism are these. First, the commandment of God, “Baptize all nations” (Matt. 28:19), in which words the baptism of infants is prescribed. For the apostles by virtue of this . . . Continue reading →
Berkouwer’s Critique of Barth’s Rejection Of Infant Baptism
Ever since Karl Barth began around 1940 to oppose the justifiability of infant baptism, the controversy has continued unabated. Even though it cannot be said that Barth’s criticism exerted great influence, his considerations nevertheless gave rise to new reflection and a tremendous . . . Continue reading →
New In Print And Online: God The Son And The Covenant Of Grace
Caspar Olevianus, Eternal Generation, and the Substance of the Covenant of Grace
In the Summer of 1570 the Reformed Reformation in Heidelberg faced a crisis. Several of the Zwinglians, who had sided with Erastus against the Calvinist order in the Palatinate, were perceived by their Calvinist opponents to be arguing for something that looked . . . Continue reading →
In, With, And Under
God the Son, the substance of the covenant of grace, was Continue reading
Owen: To Confine The Abrahamic Covenant To Earthly Things Destroys The Foundations Of Religion
(1.) The life which he now led was a life of faith with respect unto things spiritual and eternal. For he had for the foundation and object hereof, [1.] The promise of the blessed Seed, and the spiritual blessing of all nations . . . Continue reading →
Manton: God Must Do Good To Your Children Too
It may press us to admire the grace of God to his children. He cannot satisfy himself in doing good to you, but he must do good to your children too. How should we entertain this with reverence! When God told Abraham, . . . Continue reading →
This Is Not Reformed Theology
Particular Baptist Covenant Theology was essentially the idea that the Covenant of Grace is synonymous with the New Covenant and was only revealed in the previous biblical covenants (Abrahamic, Davidic, etc.) but that the Biblical Covenants were not the Covenant of Grace . . . Continue reading →
The Particular Baptists Are Right About This
If one views the substance of the Covenant of Grace as synonymous with or being in substance the same as say the Abrahamic Covenant however, then paedobaptism is the logical conclusion. Ryan Davidson Five Reasons For Considering The 1689 Confession of Faith . . . Continue reading →
Boston: Christ Fulfilled The Condition
It is by this, and this alone, the salvation of sinners becomes a debt: therefore this alone is the condition of the covenant. For the reward is of debt to him, and him only, who fulfills the condition of a covenant: to . . . Continue reading →
Indy Reformed: The Abrahamic Covenant
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9:59 On Some Applications Of The Covenant Of Works
Harrison Perkins: How God Offered Incorruptible Life To Adam (2)
Indy Reformed: What Is The Covenant Of Grace?
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