Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
Dabney discusses in his Systematics in what sense the CoW has been abrogated since Adam's Fall:
Dabney clarifies, in my mind at least, the senses in which sinners are still subject to the CoW and therefore also indicates in what senses the CoW could have been, or was, "Republished" at Sinai.
(a)The moral law was republished - summarised in the Ten Commandments.
(b) The curse of the law or penal sanction was republished, in various typological arrangements, including aspects of the criminal and penal code, and the threat of the Israelites being cast out of the Land.
(c) But the CoW as a means of staying in and prospering in the Land was not republished but remained hypothetical. The only means of staying in and prospering in the Land was by faith through grace. Staying in and prospering in the land was typological of the gracious rewards which the Lord promises to His people for imperfect but real good works.
For Christ the CoW was not hypothetical.
I'll point out what Dabney explicitly says about Republicationism on another thread.
The obvious statement is this: the transgression has indeed terminated the sinner's right to the sanction of reward: but it has not terminated his obligation to obey, nor to the penal sanction.
This last remark shows us, in what sense the covenant of works was abriogated when Adam fell - and this is obviously the sense of Paul. The proposal of life by the law is at an end for the fallen; they have forever disabled themselves for acquiring, under the law, the sanction of reward by their own works. Hence, God in His mercy, withdraws that covenant so far as it is a dispensation for that result; and He substitutes for all who are in Christ, the covenant of grace. Compare Gal. v:3; iii:10 ; Matt. v: 18; Rom vi:14,15. (page 637)
Dabney clarifies, in my mind at least, the senses in which sinners are still subject to the CoW and therefore also indicates in what senses the CoW could have been, or was, "Republished" at Sinai.
(a)The moral law was republished - summarised in the Ten Commandments.
(b) The curse of the law or penal sanction was republished, in various typological arrangements, including aspects of the criminal and penal code, and the threat of the Israelites being cast out of the Land.
(c) But the CoW as a means of staying in and prospering in the Land was not republished but remained hypothetical. The only means of staying in and prospering in the Land was by faith through grace. Staying in and prospering in the land was typological of the gracious rewards which the Lord promises to His people for imperfect but real good works.
For Christ the CoW was not hypothetical.
I'll point out what Dabney explicitly says about Republicationism on another thread.