The Covenant of Sovereign Grace (11) or The Decisive Influence of the Reformation Gospel upon the Orthodox Doctrine of the Covenant in the Netherlands

Lillback's Logic There are two other considerations that refute Presbyterian theologian Peter A. Lillback's learned "liberation" of the covenant from election in the theology of John Calvin, in his book The Binding of God: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology (Baker, 2001). There is, first, the implication that Lillback himself draws from Calvin's supposed doctrine of a covenant of universal, but conditional, grace. The implication is that Calvin, unlike Luther, taught...