God Meant It for Good: The Covenant & the Church Today, by Ted Hoogsteen / The Cambridge Platform: A Platform of Church Discipline Gathered Out of the Word of God; and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches Assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England To be presented to the Churches and General Court for their consideration and acceptance in the Lord (A New Edition of the Historic Puritan Congregational Church Order), ed. Darrell Todd Maurina

God Meant It for Good: The Covenant & the Church Today, by Ted Hoogsteen. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Welch Publishing Company Inc., 1989. 99 pages. (Paper). [Reviewed by the editor.] The title is taken from Joseph's words to his brothers in Genesis 50:20 concerning their wickedness in selling him into Egypt, "Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good." The book explains Genesis 37-50 rightly as covenant history, not merely the history of the vicissitudes and eventual success of...