and perfected, requires free and heartfelt obedience, and a communion which, to be restored and regained, requires the gracious and merciful granting of eternal life through the work of a Savior. It echoes the scriptural truth that the life promised man in the first covenant is only restored to man and ultimately realized in eschatological glory in the covenant of grace (cf. Rom. 6:23; Rev. 2:7). In order not to leave one further loose end among the common objections to the WCF’s
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