Noah Lykins’s Reviews > Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives > Status Update

Brakel on the pactum salutis - “covenant reveals a love which is unparalleled, exceeding all comprehension, How blessed and what a wonder it is... to have been the object of the eternal mutual delight of the Father and the Son to save you!" RS 1:263

“…from the beginning, Reformed theology was an international movement sattered across Europe. A growing body of confessed doctrines, shared ideas, and reorganized institutions connected these communities. Reformed works passed freely from one region to another.. In this sense, while early Dutch theology was clearly Dutch, it was the Dutch front of an international movement.”

“The presence of the wind over the waters in Gen. 8:1 recalls the presence of the Spirit over the deep in 1:2, marking the advent of the re-creation process.” Flood as paradigm for subsequent judgement events

“Like Melchizedek before him—and Christ after him—Joshua is going to be both king and priest... "crown" in Zechariah 6:11 is actually plural in the original Hebrew, and he argued that what is going on here is that two crowns are being placed on the one man Joshua... this event clearly symbolizes the union of the priestly and kingly offices in one man, which is obviously designed to point ahead to Christ.”