Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
When we remember that believers will receive gracious rewards for their good works/"good works" in the context of grace already given, we can better understand what is happening in the typological rewards of the Old Covenant of enjoying the Land and remaining in the Land i.e. we can better understand what is happening than on a Republicationist understanding.
This from Louis Berkhof
The Israelites enjoyment and tenure on the Land was related to their good works or bad works, but it was in the context of the grace already shown to them in being saved from the bondage of Egypt.
This from Louis Berkhof
P.542: Scripture clearly teaches that the good works of believers are not meritorious in the proper sense of the word. We should bear in mind, however, that the word "merit" is employed in a twofold sense, the one strict and proper, and the other loose. Strictly speaking a meritorious work is one to which, on account of its intrinsic value and dignity, the reward is justly due from commutative justice. Loosely speaking, however, a work that is deserving of approval and to which a reward is somehow attached (by promise, agreement, or otherwise) is also sometimes called meritorious. Such works are praiseworthy and are rewarded by God. But however this may be, they are surely not meritorious in the stricty sense of the word. They do not, by their own intrinsic moral value, make God a debtor to him who performs them. In strict justice the good works of believers merit nothing.
The Israelites enjoyment and tenure on the Land was related to their good works or bad works, but it was in the context of the grace already shown to them in being saved from the bondage of Egypt.
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