God’s people. For this reason, Robert Davidson says that covenant is “a relationship rooted in God’s initiative, in what he has done for the people, but it looks for a response from the people.”3 The classic covenant theologian Herman Witsius (1636–1708) also highlights man’s responsibility to respond to God’s grace: “A covenant of God with man, is an agreement between God and man, about the way of obtaining consummate happiness; including a commination of eternal destruction, with which the contemner