Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
What Republicationists see as a Republication of the Covenant of Works at Sinai is actually a Republication of - and a temporary addition to - the Edenic Typology, which graciously taught and teaches, Adam, Eve and their offspring (us) about the ultimate realities of the Heavenly Eschatalogical Kingdom and the possible exclusion from it in Hell.
The reason that there was a Republication of the Edenic Typology in different and additional form at the time of Moses, was because God in His grace knew that the Church at that stage in its development needed it, and that we in the New Covenant would need to study and learn from it, while not being bound by it.
At best there is a hypothetical and not real RoCoW within the Mosaic Scriptures, and also in the New Covenant Scriptures, but it has always been the case since the Fall that the CoW has stood hypothetically without being offered as a realistic way of salvation to sinners by God.
That isn't a real RoCoW and it would be, and is, confused and confusing to call it a RoCoW. If a real RoCoW had been issued as a way of salvation at Sinai or any time since the Fall to sinners, the gracious God would have been cruelly mocking His sinful people.
Christ on the other hand, being sinless from birth, could realistically merit Heaven for Himself and us - and bless God He did - through coming under the CoW.
The reason that there was a Republication of the Edenic Typology in different and additional form at the time of Moses, was because God in His grace knew that the Church at that stage in its development needed it, and that we in the New Covenant would need to study and learn from it, while not being bound by it.
At best there is a hypothetical and not real RoCoW within the Mosaic Scriptures, and also in the New Covenant Scriptures, but it has always been the case since the Fall that the CoW has stood hypothetically without being offered as a realistic way of salvation to sinners by God.
That isn't a real RoCoW and it would be, and is, confused and confusing to call it a RoCoW. If a real RoCoW had been issued as a way of salvation at Sinai or any time since the Fall to sinners, the gracious God would have been cruelly mocking His sinful people.
Christ on the other hand, being sinless from birth, could realistically merit Heaven for Himself and us - and bless God He did - through coming under the CoW.