The Covenant: God’s Tabernacle With Men
Hoeksema argues that the covenant is not merely a pact or means of salvation, but the very heart of religion—God's self-revelation as the Triune God entering into intimate friendship with His people. This foundational Reformed treatise demonstrates how the covenant relationship constitutes the ultimate realization of God's purpose, wherein believers know, trust, and love God as His beloved friends and family members.
More so even than the doctrine of sovereign predestination, that concerning God’s eternal covenant is a peculiarly Reformed heritage. The reason for this is, perhaps, that it is especially in Reformed theology that strong emphasis is laid on the self-revelation and the glory of God as the end and purpose of all the works of God, while it is in the covenant relation of God with man that He especially reveals Himself in all the beauty of His perfections, yea, in His very life as the Triune God....