Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 100
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 100.
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“Therefore, in spite of the multitude of texts which place the ‘old covenant’ of the law of Moses in direct contrast with the ‘new covenant’ of grace in Christ, showing that the one was a failure and the other superseded it (comp. Jer. 31:31–34; Heb. 8:7–12, etc), in order to maintain the unbroken continuity of the Covenant of Grace, they are forced to the unscriptural and untenable position of saying that the law of Moses was a part of the grace covenant.” (Page 135)
“Taking into account the foregoing facts, a definition of a divine major covenant may be expressed as follows: (1) It is a sovereign disposition of God, whereby He establishes an unconditional or declarative compact with Israel, obligating Himself, in grace, by the untrammelled formula, ‘I will,’ to bring to pass of Himself definite blessing for the covenanted ones, or (2) a proposal of God, wherein He promises, in a conditional or mutual compact with Israel, by the contingent formula, ‘If ye will,’ to grant special blessings to the covenanted ones, provided they fulfill perfectly certain conditions, and to execute definite punishment in case of their failure.” (Page 316)
“On the basis of Adam’s failure under this supposed covenant, ‘Federal Theology’ explains the imputation of the first sin to all men. Federal Theology was finally established by the covenant theologians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Theory further assumes—(3) that when man fell, God made another covenant with the elect, or, more technically, ‘with Christ as the second Adam, and in him with all the elect as his seed.’1 This covenant is called by the advocates of the theory: the Covenant of Grace.” (Pages 134–135)
- Title: Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 100
- Author: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Series: Bibliotheca Sacra
- Publisher: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 1943
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_bsac_100
- Resource Type: Journal
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