The Covenant of Sovereign Grace (12) or The Decisive Influence of the Reformation Gospel upon the Orthodox Doctrine of the Covenant in the Netherlands

Graafland on Covenant and Election in Calvin In his magisterial study of the origin and development of the covenant in Reformed Protestantism, Van Calvijn tot Comrie(English translation: From Calvin to Comrie, 3 vols., Boekencentrum, 1992-1996; all quotations from this work that follow are my translation of the Dutch), the Dutch theologian C. Graafland acknowledges that in Calvin's theology election governs the covenant of grace. At the outset of his study of Calvin's doctrine of the...