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Drawing on new primary source material, this volume considers the Assembly’s theology in terms of the unfolding development of doctrine in the Reformed churches—in connection with the preceding and current events in English history—and locates it in relation to the catholic tradition of the western church. The book asks exactly what the divines meant at each stage of their task. At a time when...

representing the persons of the Trinity as entering into agreements with one another (he refers to the Sum of Saving Knowledge, head 2, which speaks of “a bargain”) and by representing the Father and the Son as the only two parties involved, leaving the Holy Spirit out of the picture.32 Certainly LC 31 talks of the covenant of grace as made with Christ as the second Adam and in him with all the elect as his seed, but the parties to the first covenant were God and man, and to the covenant of grace,
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