Unwittingly, Christians often make the assumption, implicitly or explicitly, that the work of redemption was intended to restore man to a Garden of Eden situation, and that nearly everything about the pre-lapse life will characterize life in glory.

Because of man’s inadequacy, the Holy Spirit turns the Christian to his fellow man, “Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established.” (Prov. 15:22)

Power, as a divine attribute, leads us to consider the administration of it in God’s sovereign dominion.

This is a command and an encouragement to count those things as joy which the world would count as occasions for despair and cynicism.

The Author of the law comes to deliver the law according to its fuller sense.

A pilgrim, traditionally understood, is a sojourner in a land that is not his own.

God is self-existent and is thus unaffected by His creation. Creation does not leave an impression on Him.

The design of common/redemptive kingdom semantics is the preservation of the redemptive kingdom, and with it, the preservation of the gospel that alone produces it.

In substance, all that is meant by “covenant of works” is the divine imposition of conditions upon man in the garden with blessings for obedience to those conditions and curses for failing to obey.

The covenant of redemption is not distinct to paedobaptist covenant theology, but to the orthodoxy of high Calvinism in the post-Reformation era.