Puritan Paperbacks & Reformed Theology Books

“That it pleases God to accept the will for the deed is one of the privileges of the saints that comes by the covenant of grace.”

Jeremiah Burroughs, Jacob’s Seed and David’s Delight

“That the dispensation of goodness and forbearance which the world was set under by the first promise , was now ratified by a solemn covenant .”

Nehemiah Coxe, Discourse on Covenants

“Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples’ (RV).”

John Murray, The Covenant of Grace

“Therefore the promise of life to Christ's spiritual seed, was made chiefly to Christ himself; and to them only in and through him.”

Thomas Boston, The Covenant of Grace

“To stand in that circle means to be a party in the covenant, to live out of a consciousness of the covenant and to drink out of the fullness of the covenant.”

Geerhardus Vos, The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology

“Now, though Christ's obedience be the principal, and our faith the secondary condition; yet, usually, in propounding the Covenant of Grace, the former is silenced, and the latter only mentioned.”

Ezekiel Hopkins, The Doctrine of the Two Covenants

“I have all the desires of my heart in the covenant of God, though he take away the desire of mine eyes upon earth with his stroke.”

John Flavel, The Balm of the Covenant

“Here is the case then, man came under the covenant of works, wherein death was threatened in case of transgression; now the covenant is broken.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“In order to prove that there is a covenant between the Father and the Son, formed in eternity, and revealed in time, it is not necessary that we should adduce passages of the Scriptures in which this truth is expressly asserted.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“So all the promises that God hath made to any of his people, though never so long ago, faith fetches out the comfort of them, as if they were made now to us.”

Jeremiah Burroughs, Moses Self-Denial

“His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him and keep his covenant.”

William S. Plumer, The Rock of our Salvation

“He had a Son to give away, and his Son a life, a kingdom; and both of them agreed to do it.”

Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, V07

“The Father did give the Son a work to do, and He did promise to Him a reward upon its accomplishment.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“Indeed, in the estate of innocency, Adam by creation received grace for himself and his posterity; and in his fall he transgressed not only for himself, but for all his posterity.”

William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins, Volume 5

“There are some, yea, many, of mankind, who are still under the broken Covenant of Works.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“The covenant does not yield its blessing to all indiscriminately.”

John Murray, The Covenant of Grace

“They come into the covenant, and abide also in it, under his wings allenarly; expecting no benefit of it, nor by it, but through him.”

Thomas Boston, The Covenant of Grace

“Christ is a Covenant-Head, the Head of the Covenant of Grace.”

Jeremiah Burroughs, Spots of the Godly and of the Wicked

“He joins our nature first with God in his own person, and makes both one there, that so God and man becoming one in person, he might the easilier make God and man one in covenant.”

Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, V05

“How can they be but unholy, who are under the covenant of works? for there is no communion with God in the way of that covenant now; so sanctifying influences are stopt, and they must wither and pine away in their iniquity.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“No Israelite was ever justified by works, but the nation had to keep the conditions of the law in order to remain in possession of the earthly type of the heavenly rest.”

Michael Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“It is no less clear that the Redeemer is the same under all dispensations.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“This Covenant of Grace is propounded to us, upon a supposed impossibility of obtaining Righteousness and Justification according to the terms of the Covenant of Works.”

Ezekiel Hopkins, The Doctrine of the Two Covenants

“The entire period from Adam to Christ is the time of promise.”

Wilhelmus a Brakel, The Christians Reasonable Service vol 4

“So many of us as have afresh engaged ourselves in covenant unto God, let us remember that we have taken the "mark of God upon our foreheads;" and it will ill become us to set the mark of Antichrist by it.”

John Owen, The Just Shall Live

“By fulfilling the conditions on which the promises of the covenant of redemption were suspended, the veracity and justice of God are pledged to secure the salvation of his people; and this secures the fidelity of his people.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“Ignorance of God: Either we know not, or at least do not duly consider his Almighty Power, vigilant care, unspotted faithfulness, and how they are all engaged, by covenant, for his people.”

John Flavel, A Practical Treatise of Fear

“Therefore, as often as he sins, he breaks the covenant by renewal, remains subject to its curse, and increases it time and again.”

Wilhelmus a Brakel, The Christians Reasonable Service vol 1

“Of old for thousands of years the pious believed in a Savior to come.”

William S. Plumer, Vital Godliness

“We are all under the sanctions of the covenant of works, and we are in desperate need of a covenant of grace.”

R.C. Sproul, What Is Reformed Theology Understanding the Basics

“When the work of the Spirit by means of the law and the gospel leads to true conversion, in this conversion the longing for this lost ideal of the covenant appears as an essential part.”

Geerhardus Vos, The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology

“He is the Covenant, because, as God-man, He takes it into His own hand, and works out its every condition.”

Henry Law, The Gospel in Genesis

“Ere it could come fully out into view, the ritual must be disannulled; ere the glorious building can be seen, the scaffolding must be taken down.”

Horatius Bonar, The Lesser Epistles

“True, this ancient priesthood had only to do with the flesh; it pertained but to the outward person of the sinner, and the mere visible courts of God.”

Horatius Bonar, The Rent Veil

“When God made our first parent Adam, he gave this whole earth to him, for his inheritance: he set him in a paradise of pleasure, and made him lord of all the works of his hand, so that he wanted for nothing to make him happy.”

Ebenezer Erskine, The Wise Virgins Going Forth to Meet the Bridegroom

“Blood 'shed' is the symbol or visible exhibition of 'death'.”

Horatius Bonar, The Blood of the Covenant

“To this end special revelations were made to them, and God entered into a covenant with them, promising that He would be their God, and that they should be his people.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“Immediately after the fall God gave to Adam the promise of redemption.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Every thing is as its foundation is.”

John Flavel, The Balm of the Covenant

“Labor for a thorough understanding of the covenant , both the covenant which God made with Christ on behalf of man—and the covenant which God has made with man through Christ.”

Thomas Vincent, The Only Deliverer from the Wrath to Come

“First, the object of Abraham’s faith was double: one less principal, that he should have issue in his old age; the second more principal, that the Messiah his redeemer should descend of his loins.”

William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins, Volume 2

“Thus stands the natural man under the curse; it is upon him, it is round about him; go where he will, there is no shifting of it, all his days he wades through these waters; he is in the deep mire, where there is no firm standing.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“An obligation was assumed by the Son to accomplish the work assigned Him; and an obligation was assumed by the Father to grant Him the stipulated reward.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“In other words, the spiritual relationship which lay at the centre of the covenant grace disclosed in both the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants reaches its ripest fruition in the new covenant.”

John Murray, The Covenant of Grace

“For from this, that God is our God, cometh all that we have that is good in nature and grace.”

Richard Sibbes, A Heavenly Conference

“Be thy guilt never so great, if thou wilt come into covenant with God, here is mercy for thee, and therefore make this use of it.”

Richard Sibbes, A Heavenly Conference

“Adam had more advantage to maintain his station than any of you.”

John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened Up

“Theoretically God could have justly and righteously imposed an obligation on his creatures to obey his law without any promise of reward whatsoever.”

R.C. Sproul, What is reformed theology understanding the basics

“Accordingly, upon man's sinning, the curse seized him; and continuing under that covenant, it is still working in him, till it works his body and soul asunder.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“Covenant in both Old and New Testaments, so we have argued, is a broad term encompassing a variety of arrangements—most notably, con ditional covenants of law and unconditional covenants of promise.”

Michael Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“In the state of innocence, God suited the power of his creature to the law which he intended to give him; and made his obligation to duty commensurate with his ability to perform it. 4.”

Ezekiel Hopkins, The Doctrine of the Two Covenants

“For thus was Isaac the child of promise in that he was born to Abraham, not by the strength of nature, but by God’s promise.”

William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins, Volume 2

“Well, to conclude this point, in the making of the covenant there must be a mutual consent of the parties on both sides; and besides the promise on God’s part, there must be also a restipulation on man’s part.”

William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins, Volume 5

“The covenant of works had no provision for vicarious obedience, obedience to God’s law by one person in behalf of another.”

R.C. Sproul, What is reformed theology understanding the basics

“Lastly, The only way to satisfy this covenant, is by faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ the surety, and to plead his obedience and death.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“The 'blood of the covenant' is the payment demanded by the Father, and paid by the Son.”

Horatius Bonar, The Blood of the Covenant

“The gospel, however, is the offer of salvation upon the conditions of the covenant of grace. in this sense, the covenant of grace is formed with all mankind.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“There is not a doctrine concerning Christ, taught in the New Testament, which the Apostles do not affirm to have been revealed under former dispensations.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“Man had a conditional promise hereof, in the covenant of works; but the condition being broken, the benefit promised was lost; heaven's gates were shut against Adam, and all his natural seed.”

Thomas Boston, The Covenant of Grace

“The same thing holds true for the covenant as it binds generations together, as holds true for the covenant as it binds the individual to God.”

Geerhardus Vos, The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology

“We show our love in return by obeying the stipulations or laws of his covenant.”

R.C. Sproul, What Is Reformed Theology Understanding the Basics

“I have called you from the chief men of the earth, I left them, and called you, and said to you, you are my servant.”

Jeremiah Burroughs, Jacob’s Seed and David’s Delight

“And the church instituted is a particular assembly of saints on earth, united in Christ by a special covenant.”

Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, V11

“The covenant being made with Adam for all mankind, the curse behoved to fall on the breakers according to the threatening, by virtue of the truth and justice of God.”

Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Works

“The children of an apostatized Israelite were God’s as well as those of his faithful servants.”

Nehemiah Coxe, Discourse on Covenants

“In their person he stood, making this covenant with his Father; in their name he acted, striking this bargain with him, as a surety to obey the law, and satisfy justice.”

Thomas Boston, The Covenant of Grace

“God cannot simply let go of the ordinance which He once instituted, but much rather displays His glory in that He carries it through despite man's sin and apostasy.”

Geerhardus Vos, The Doctrine of the Covenant in Reformed Theology

“The Romans, having now become believers, were united into one body with believing Israel.”

Herman Witsius, The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man

“Acquaint yourselves with the covenant God made with Christ on behalf of man.”

Thomas Vincent, The Only Deliverer from the Wrath to Come

“Baptism alone is no mark of God’s child, but baptism joined with faith.”

William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins, Volume 2

“The Father may send the Son, may give Him a work to do, and promise Him a recompense.”

Charles Hodge, The Covenant of Grace

“The only difference between them and us consists in this, that they saw the Sun of Righteousness under a cloud; we, openly: they, by its reflection; we, directly.”

Ezekiel Hopkins, The Doctrine of the Two Covenants

“He obtained eternal redemption, and by confirming the Covenant of Grace with his own blood, he passed all its promises into an unalterable testament. 46 §6.”

Nehemiah Coxe, Discourse on Covenants

“He who believes enters into possession of all that it contains.”

Horatius Bonar, The Blood of the Covenant

“For when we think of the promise which is the central element of the covenant, ‘I will be your God, and ye shall be my people’, there is necessarily involved, as we have seen, mutuality in the highest sense.”

John Murray, The Covenant of Grace