These thoughts did not originate with me but with Frances Turretin in "Institutes of Elenctic Theology." However, they are biblical based and worthy of sharing. When writing on the subject of the everlasting covenant of grace Turretin communicated the different means or ways in which the covenant has been revealed or administered (the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15, Abrahamic, Davidic, Mosaic covenants). However, he also described the richness of the revelation that we have today compared to the days before Christ's salvific work at Calvary. The old and new covenants were differentiated by:
1. Time---Before and after Christ
2. Clarity---mysteries are now more clearly revealed
3. Easiness---service was more burdensome under the law (Matt. 11:28-30)
4. Sweetness---Gospel promises are more frequent
5. Freedom---Through the infusion of the Holy Spirit
6. Amplitude---Universality of the gospel proclamation
7. Duration---No other revelation is to be given
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him? (Hebrews 2:3)
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