hammondjones
Puritan Board Junior
A couple of related questions on the WCF proof texts.
1) I understand that the original document did not have proof texts. What does that imply about the importance of the proof texts to the document? Are they considered part of the Confession, or more or less adjunct?
2) If we note that while the proof texts for the Covenant of Works refer to Moses (Lev 18:5, Deut 27:26), the quotes of Moses are indirect (by way of the Apostle), is it then fair to suggest that the Divines are appealing to the repetition of the CoW at Sinai, but avoid quoting Moses directly, so as not to suggest that the Mosaic administration itself was of works? Or would that be reading too much into the choice of proof text?
Hope that's clear.
Thanks
1) I understand that the original document did not have proof texts. What does that imply about the importance of the proof texts to the document? Are they considered part of the Confession, or more or less adjunct?
2) If we note that while the proof texts for the Covenant of Works refer to Moses (Lev 18:5, Deut 27:26), the quotes of Moses are indirect (by way of the Apostle), is it then fair to suggest that the Divines are appealing to the repetition of the CoW at Sinai, but avoid quoting Moses directly, so as not to suggest that the Mosaic administration itself was of works? Or would that be reading too much into the choice of proof text?
Hope that's clear.
Thanks
Chapter VII - Of God's Covenant with Man
II. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,[2] wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity,[3] upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.[4]
[2] GAL 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
[3] ROM 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
ROM 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world...
[4] GEN 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
GAL 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.