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Following Covenant and Eschatology and Lord and Servant, this concluding volume of a four-part series examines Christian salvation from the perspective of covenant theology. In Covenant and Salvation, Michael Horton surveys law and gospel, union with Christ, and justification and theosis, conversing with both classical and contemporary viewpoints.

mediator of the covenant: “But Christ dwells principally on this, that the vital sap—that is, all life and strength—proceeds from himself alone.”43 The mystical union of believers with Christ (and therefore with his body) is the wider field within which the Reformers recognize the integral connection of justification and sanctification, the imputation of righteousness, and the impartation of Christ’s holy love in the lives of those united to him through faith. Faith looks to Christ for justification
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