Believers and Their Seed, A Two-Fold Seed (Chapter 8)

We have now reached the point at which we can fruitfully discuss the question how we ought to view the seed of believers. Or, to put the question in another form: are, then, all children who are born in the generations of the covenant also essentially in God's covenant? Are all elect? We have seen that God establishes His covenant in the line of continued generations. This is perfectly clear from the entire history of that covenant as it is portrayed for us in Holy Writ. And besides, this truth...