the sense that new covenant believers are now, “for doubtless, the state of God’s Children under the new Covenant, is better than that of Adam and his posterity, would have been under the first, had he kept his uprightness.”8 These three positions, practically speaking, are not far removed from one another. Theologically, however, the second, and especially the third, are prone to accent adoption more biblically, though all three can be adapted to fit Sinclair Ferguson’s apt summary: “Undoubtedly