Lord’s Day 12, Chapter 2: The Prophetic Office and the Fall

The central idea of an officebearer is that he is God's friend-servant, authorized to function as God's representative, as His vice-regent, in the visible world. In this general sense of the word Adam in the state of rectitude was very really an officebearer, for in virtue of the covenant relation in which he was placed by his Creator, he was God's friend-servant. For, as we have seen before, the covenant of God with Adam in Paradise was not a sort of pact or agree­ment, did not consist in...