Patrick Gillespie

A s the previous two posts demonstrated (see here and here ), Patrick Gillespie taught that Christ fulfilled the terms of the Covenant of Redemption in order to establish the gracious character of the Covenant of Grace. While God requires faith as the condition of entering the Covenant of Grace,...

I n my previous post , I provided a sketch of Patrick Gillespie’s arguments for the distinction between the Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Grace. Yet some have objected to this distinction by appealing to Westminster Larger Catechism 31, which states, “The Covenant of Grace is made with...

M ankind needs saving from God by God. As demonstrated in my previous posts on Patrick Gillespie ( #1 , #2 , #3 , #4 ), the broken Covenant of Works paved the way for the salvation of God’s elect in the Covenant of Grace. Yet in the sequel to his Ark of the Testament , Gillespie argued in The Ark...

T his post is the final in a series of four (see #1 , #2 , #3 ), which outlines and annotates Patrick Gillespie’s (1617-1675) treatment of the Covenant of Works. In this section, Gillespie illustrates how Adam’s failure in the Covenant of Works paves way for the Covenant of Grace. I will conclude...

I n this third part (see parts 1 , 2 ) of my annotated outline of Patrick Gillespie’s treatment of the Covenant of Works, the emphasis shifts from the existence and manner of transacting the covenant to its nature and breach . This material expands the gracious aspects of the Covenant of Works and...

I n my last post , I began to present an annotated outline of Patrick Gillespie’s (1617-1675) treatment of the Covenant of Works from his work, The Ark of the Testament . We saw that he made the case that there was a Covenant of Works with Adam before the Fall. Then he explained how God transacted...

C ovenant theology is a vital and distinctive part of Reformed theology, both past and present. The Covenant of Works, which is questioned by some today, gradually became an essential component of the Reformed presentation of the gospel by drawing parallels between Adam and Christ, as the Second...