will make a new covenant.” Thus just as B. B. Warfield noted that covenant is the architectonic principle of the Westminster Confession, so also the same may be said of Scripture. It is not its only governing theme, but it is fundamental to it. Indeed it is the framework within which God sets the scene for the coming of Christ and for the bringing in of his kingdom. Elsewhere, in connection with the deity of Christ, Warfield also shrewdly pointed out that it is not simply in “the big texts” that
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