Status Updates From The Wonderful Works of God

"Because of the abundant adequacy of Christ's sacrifice for the whole world, the gospel of reconciliation must also be preached all Creatures... however much we must hold to the absolute universality of the preaching of the gospel and of the offer of grace, we are not to infer from it that the benefits of Christ were achieved for every individual person... the benefits of Christ's work always relates to the church."

"We do not understand the substitutionary suffering of Christ, because we... cannot come anywhere near calculating what love enables one to do, and what eternal, infinite, divine love can achieve.... we need only believe it gratefully, rest in it, and glory and rejoice in it."

Excellent chapter on Christology. No kenoticism here!

"His Sonship is not based on His mission, but His mission is based on His sonship"

There is one CoG. All believers are saved under it, whether OT or NT. The difference is OT had dimmer notions of the Messiah. Bavinck uses the phrase "successive dispensations of the covenant."

“There is still no work that explains the content of the Christian Faith for ordinary people, at a modest size and price, and which is accessible. The teaching of the Christian religion that is offered in this book tries to fill that gap.”
Checks page count. Ah yes, a modest 549 pages.