Believers and Their Seed, The Meaning of the Covenant (Chapter 5b)

The essence of the covenant, therefore, is not to be sought in a promise, and that, too, a promise in the sense of a certain general offer to the children of believers, as Prof. Heyns would have it. Neither is it to be sought in the idea that the covenant is a certain way, or manner, of salvation by which God would make us partakers of everlasting glory, as many others describe the covenant, thereby actually denying that God's covenant is eternal. The essence of the covenant, therefore, is not...