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Is Christ the Head of the Covenant of Grace?
This a Chapter Title ipsis verbis in Van Genderen and Velema’s Concise Reformed Dogmatics page 555
These authors see some problems arising from stating Christ as the Head of the Covenant of Grace, namely a too close identity between Election and Covenant, so between those who are In Christ and those who are in the Covenant.
Only the Covenant of Redemption relates and applies perfectly to Election.
So Christ being the Mediator, the Head of all those chosen Canons of Dordt 1:7, must be considered the Mediator of the Covenant but the Head of only the Elect.
This, according to the authors, is being both Confessionally and Theologically correct.
But as in Romans 5 Adam is not only the Head of the human race, but also the Federal Head of the Covenant of Works that was, and continues to be trespassed by all who are in Adam as covenant breakers - Hosea 6:7.
Is not Christ then, revealed in Romans 5, because of God's gracious condescension, as the Head of the Covenant of Grace?
How did the Westminster Assembly understood this matter?
This a Chapter Title ipsis verbis in Van Genderen and Velema’s Concise Reformed Dogmatics page 555
These authors see some problems arising from stating Christ as the Head of the Covenant of Grace, namely a too close identity between Election and Covenant, so between those who are In Christ and those who are in the Covenant.
Only the Covenant of Redemption relates and applies perfectly to Election.
So Christ being the Mediator, the Head of all those chosen Canons of Dordt 1:7, must be considered the Mediator of the Covenant but the Head of only the Elect.
This, according to the authors, is being both Confessionally and Theologically correct.
But as in Romans 5 Adam is not only the Head of the human race, but also the Federal Head of the Covenant of Works that was, and continues to be trespassed by all who are in Adam as covenant breakers - Hosea 6:7.
Is not Christ then, revealed in Romans 5, because of God's gracious condescension, as the Head of the Covenant of Grace?
How did the Westminster Assembly understood this matter?