malcolmmaxwell60
Puritan Board Freshman
YesAccording to the Westminster Confession, the one single Covenant of Grace is administered in two dispensations (no pun intended): first, under the old covenant, second under the new covenant. So both the old and new covenants make up the Covenant of Grace, but in the words of the Confession, they are administered differently. IE, the old covenant was the gospel but the gospel through promises, pictures and types (Canaan, the sacrifices, Passover, etc), while the new covenant is the same "substance or essence" but is given loosed of all its old covenant types and shadows. The old covenant includes the Gen.3:15 promise, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David; they all were part of the Covenant of Grace but in all of these manifestations they were "clothed" with the earthly, revealed less clearly, contained additional parts that would later pass away (OT ceremonial laws likened to the external fuel tank that drops off the space shuttel when it's no longer needed), etc etc. We could say the old covenant was Christ and the gospel promises fore-shadowed, the new covenant is those same things fulfilled. The old covenant was Christ and the gospel promised; the new covenant is the salvation wrought through Christ actually performed.
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