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Christ and Covenant Theology: Essays on Election, Republication, and the Covenants is unavailable, but you can change that!

“In the biblical drama of the living God’s works in creation and redemption,” writes Cornelis Venema, “no theme is more lustrous than that of God’s gracious intention to enjoy communion with humans who bear his image and whose lives have been broken through sin.” This collection of Venema’s essays summarizes and defends a broad consensus view of the doctrine of the covenants in the history of...

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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