3:13 4:4-5).” And goes on to note “This explanation from Petto demonstrates how he himself, and most of the Particular Baptists, considered that the covenant of works was reaffirmed with a different goal than at its first promulgation.”
For Christ, it was a covenant of works for which he had to accomplish righteousness actively and passively (Rom. For Israel it was a national covenant by whose conditions she received blessings and curses in its land (Deut. It contains essays by thirteen different authors who do not necessarily advocate the fine details of every contribution, something that is quite common with multiple-author works.”įor example, in Chapter 3 (“By Farther Steps: A Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Covenant Theology”) Pascal Denault explains “Samuel Petto considered that the Old Covenant did not have the same function for Israel as for Christ. That said, make sure to take note of Richard Barcellos’ note in the preface: “It in no way pretends to be a fully worked-out Baptist covenant theology. These ripples still affect the churches of our day.” I believe that Tombes was right on target. Tombes really believed that the right doctrine would have major repercussions in the church-at-large. The debate that raged in the seventeenth century was more than the mere academic production of print on paper. He was concerned with the right practice of this ordinance for the good of man’s soul, not to win a theological point. Renihan notes in Chapter 6 “ The recovery of right baptism was Tombes’ personal, yet godly, obsession. It thoroughly developed in me a desire to see the church reformed according to the Word of God (Ch. Reading the book stirred up a love for and worship of the Lord.
Many of you have been waiting for this book since was launched in June 2013 and you will not be disappointed. It is with great joy that we announce the publication of Recovering a Covenantal Heritage. Covenant Theology in the First and Second London Confessions of Faith, James M. 1. A Brief Overview of Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodox Federalism, Richard C.
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