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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.

around a person—a Son, a “better covenant,” one “enacted on better promises.”71 The writer says of Jeremiah’s prophecy, “In speaking of a new covenant, he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” (Heb. 8:13 RSV; cf. 9:11–23). In fact, Hebrews 10:28–29 outright contrasts this older covenantal understanding (Sinai) with the new.72 Just as the blessings of being in Christ are greater than being in Moses, the curses are greater. To forfeit the
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