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Peter Bulkeley understands the true nature of the covenant with Moses. It is not a covenant of works, but a covenant of grace. In his 1646, The Gospel Covenant, he writes thus: I grant the Covenant of works was then revealed and made knowne to the children of Israel, as being before almost obliterated and [...]

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Olevian and Rollock do some good things with Covenant Theology. They also do some bad.   Olevian, in his commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, says, ‘The law is a doctrine that God has implanted in human nature and has repeated and renewed in His commandments. … He also promises eternal life on the condition that [...]

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There is some debate about the whether the Mosaic covenant was a covenant of works or grace.   I like the way Ursinus put it, when the covenant of works was first coming into its own. In question 10 of his Larger Catechism, he speaks of the ‘divine law’, which he, with Calvin, believed was [...]

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