THE COVENANT OF GRACE AND “HEILSGESCHICHTE” After man, by his fall, had made himself incapable of life by the covenant of works, and because God had from all eternity elected some men to everlasting life, the Lord “was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace,” in order to deliver the elect “out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation, by a Redeemer” (Shorter Catechism, Question 20). Under the terms of the covenant of grace, God “freely