Hayden Mills’s Reviews > The Wonderful Works of God > Status Update

"The resurrection of Christ is a fountain of good for His church and for the whole world. It is the Amen of the Father upon the Finished of the Son."

"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."

Denies distinction between internal and external covenant, but then allows for two "sides" of the CoG. We dont know whos in the covenant, only God does. We should, according to the judgment of love, regard those who walk outwardly in the covenant as fellows of grace. But God will reveal all at the last day.

Fascinating.

"Let us not then charge Adam with guilt but rather thank Christ who has loved us so exceedingly. Let us not look back to Paradise but forward to the cross. Behind that cross lies the crown which can never fade away."